ROMAN REMAINS. 485 



an early period of their development, the Bereber people must 

 have been brought into contact with the Semitic stock, and may 

 well have been struck by the advantage of precision obtained by 

 systematic conjugation of the verb, and thus gradually moulded 

 their own rude tongue on the model supplied to them. 



APPENDIX L. 



Notes on the Roman Remains knoion to the Moors as the Castle 

 of Pharaoh, near Mouley Edris el Kehir. 



Communicated by Messrs. W. H. RicHAEDSON and 

 H. B. Beady, P.R.S. 



Learning that a party of English travellers had visited these 

 ruins in the spring of 1878, and believing that they had not 

 been seen by any European traveller since Jackson visited the 

 place early in the present century, we were anxious for in- 

 formation respecting them ; and in reply to our request we 

 received an account of theii' visit kindly drawn up by Messrs. 

 W. H. Eichardson and H. B. Brady, F.E..S. "We have also 

 been favoured with the loan of a sketch executed by Mr. G. T. 

 Biddulph, who formed one of the same party, from which the 

 vignette given p. 487 is taken. 



After the notes were in the hands of the printer the ap- 

 pearance in the 'Academy,' No. 32, p. 581, of a very full account 

 of the ruins by Dr. Leared, already well known as a successful 

 Marocco traveller, informed us that the ruins had been visited 

 by him in 1877, in company with the members of the Portu- 

 guese mission to the Sultan, and about the same time by some 

 members of the German Diplomatic Mission. Dr. Leared has 

 fully succeeded in establishing the identity of the so-called 

 Castle, or Palace, of Pharaoh with the B«man town of Volubilis, 

 and has left little to be said on that point. Nevertheless the 

 ruins are interesting enough to make the additional notes of 

 other travellers useful and valuable ; and we have therefore 

 availed ourselves of the greater part of the paper kindly sent 

 to us by Messrs. Richardson and Brady. 



