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screen the entire region from the burning winds of the 

 desert, and send down streams that cover the land with 

 vegetation. 



When one comes to consider how it happens that a 

 place possessing such extraordinary natural advantages has 

 not become frequented by the class of invalids to whom 

 climate offers the only chance of recovering health, or 

 prolonging life, the obvious answer is, that invalids cannot 

 live on air alone, and that few persons in that condition 

 have the courage to select a place where they may reason- 

 ably expect much difficulty in procuring the comforts and 

 even the necessaries of life, competent medical advice, and 

 some reasonable opportunities for occupation or amuse- 

 ment. The difficulties under the first two heads are 

 perhaps not very serious. Lodging and food may ap- 

 parently be procured on reasonable terms, and for many 

 years past there has always been a competent French 

 physician residing here. The resources of the place in 

 point of society are of course limited, and must vary with 

 the ai-rival and departure of the few European residents ; 

 but any one fortunate enough to be interested in any 

 branch of natural history would find constant occupation 

 of an agreeable kind in a place where there are not half 

 a dozen days in the year that may not be agreeably passed 

 out of doors.' 



A special subject, to be earnestly recommended to any 

 competent inquirer, whether invalid or not, who may pass 

 six months at Mogador, is the language and ethnology of 

 the Shelluh branch of the Bereber race. Many of these 

 mountain people come to seek a living at Mogador, and 



' Those who are interested in the subject should consult a pamphlet 

 entitled ' Mogador et son Climat,^ par V. Seux, Marseille, 1870, and a 

 paper in the Bulletin of the French Geographical Society for 1875, by 

 Dr. OUive, now residing at that place, styled ' CliniM de Mogador et de 

 son injt'oence sur la PhtMsie.' There are some errors in the tables in- 

 cluded in the latter paper, and especially in that headed ' Tableau 

 comparatif des Temp^ratiues moyennes de diverses stations hiver- 

 nales. ' 



