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stones lying \inderneath the present ground level. Here and 

 there the subsidence of the ground, or the falling in of the ma- 

 sonry, reveals passages and what appear to be small rooms or 

 vaults, with solid, well constructed walls. In the short hour 

 that circumstances permitted us to linger, it was impossible to 

 do more than observe things as they stood. The mere removal 

 of the loose stones would do a good deal, and a very Little exca- 

 vation would do much more, to indicate the history of the 

 original structures, and we have little doubt that many inscribed 

 stones might still be found that would help materially to 

 the same end. On the north side of the western arch and 

 fagade is a sort of enclosure formed of loose stones piled together 

 as a rude wall, and whitewashed. This wall has been reared by 

 pilgrims, each of whom has carried and placed a stone, according 

 to their custom, at what they regard as a " saint's place." ' 



Up to the year 1877 no traveller appears to have visited the 

 ruins since Jackson, who twice refers to them in his ' Account 

 of the Empire of Marocco.' In a note to p. 21 (3rd Edition, 

 1814) he says: 'The father of the Sultan Sulieman built a 

 magnificent palace on the banks of the river of Tafilelt, which 

 bounds his dominions on the eastward ; the pillars are of marble, 

 and many of them were transported across the Atlas, having 

 been collected from the (XJkser Farawan) Ruins of Pharaoh 

 near the sanctuary of Muly Dris Zerone, west of Atlas.' In 

 another place (p. 146) he says : ' When I visited these ruins in 

 my journey from the sanctuary of Muly Dris Zerone, near to 

 which they are situated, in the plain below, the jealousy of the 

 (Stata) protecting guide sent by the Fakeers to see me safe to 

 the confines of their district was excited, and he endeavoured to 

 deter me from making any observations by insinuating that the 

 place was the haunt of large and venomous serpents, scorpions, 

 (fee. A good number of cauldrons and kettles filled with gold 

 and silver coins have been excavated from these ruins.' 



