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male or female, of the empire of Morocco. Muley-Mehemed, 

 enraged at this deception, ordered his wicked minister to be 

 thrown into the sea ; and the latter thus expiated, by the for- 

 feiture of his life, the tyranny of his intentions. How many 

 proje6lors merit a fate similar to that which attended Abdoul- 

 Hassan-Benamar ! 



The Academical Society, desirous to be useful to the coun- 

 try, and to convert to its benefit the sole pecuniary advantages 

 that have been hitherto derived from the circulation of the 

 Peruvian Mercury*, having obtained the permission of the su- 

 preme authority for that purpose, invites all the learned inha- 

 bitants of the kingdom, whom it proposes to stimulate by ho- 

 norary rewards, agreeably to the custom of the academies of 

 Europe, to transmit the result of their meditations on the 

 above subje6l of the amelioration of the roads. This invita- 

 tion is accompanied by ardent prayers, that the proposal may 

 be well received, and may be produ6live of the advantages 

 the Society expe£ts to result from it. 



The Society therefore offers the reward of a gold medal, of 

 the weight of eleven ounces, with a ring and chain of the 

 same metal, to him who shall present a dissertation on the 

 easiest, most economical, and most secure method of improv- 

 ing the roads of the kingdom ; such dissertation, when com- 

 pared with the others of its class, meriting the highest appro- 

 bation, and the greatest number of suffrages. In the same 

 way it offers a silver medal, of the same weight and descrip- 

 tion, to the author whose dissertation on this subje6l, being 



* The proposition which follows is dated towards tlie close of the month of Sep- 

 tember 1 79 1, when the Mercury had subsisted for nearly nine months. 



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