ITINERARIES OF ROUTES. 371 



ROUTE 8. 



Description of the Road between Ghighaya and Ourika. 



Marocco to Tahanout 6 hours. 



„ Tedroura 1 ho\ir. 



„ Ourika 1^ „ 



This being a road to a mountaiii containing snow, in the 

 country of Ghighaya. From Tranghert, six hours' journey to a 

 mountain called Ousertit, within the jurisdiction of the Go- 

 vernor, Kaid Ibrahim el Graoui. 



[The writer here gives an alternative route from Marocco to 

 Ourika, slightly longer than the direct way given in Route 6, and 

 then refers, obviously not from personal knowledge, to a moun- 

 tain path connecting Ourika with one or other of the two valleys 

 included in the district of Reraya or Ghighaya. Tranghert is 

 probably a village in the western branch of the Ourika valley.] 



Salomon ben Daoud. 



APPENDIX C. 



Notes on the Geography of South Marocco. 

 By John Ball. 



Some remarks upon the geography of South Marocco seem 

 to be called for from a writer who has ventured to put forth a 

 new map, largely differing from those hitherto published ; but 

 the subject is encompassed with so much difficulty, and the 

 amount of accurate information available is so limited, that a 

 prudent writer must be content to regard most of his own con- 

 clusions as merely provisional, and liable to be modified or set 

 aside by the results of further exploration, whenever this shall 

 become practicable. In the mean time, some good may be 

 effected by clearing the ground of some received errors that 

 are absolutely dispi'oved by facts now ascertained. 



Little need here be said of the slight contribution to the 

 knowledge of South Marocco that can be gleaned from the 

 writers of antiquity. The earliest document bearing on the 



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