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COUNTRY OF TAFILET. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
Description of Tafilet and its commerce. — Flourishing state of agriculture 
and industry. — Miserable condition of the Jews ; their habits and cus- 
toms. — Afile. — Gardens. — Tanneyara, Marca, M'Dayara, Rahaba. — 
Chains of granite mountains. — Small river of Guigo. — L'Eyarac, Ta- 
maroc, Kars, Ain-Zeland, L'Eksebi, — Very high mountains covered 
with cork-trees. — L'Quin. — Guigo. — ^Town of Soforo. — Town of el- 
Fez, or Fez, the ancient capital of Morocco. 
The Tafilet is a small district forming, like el-Drah, part of 
the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco. Its inhabitants 
pay some imposts to this monarch, who maintains a bacha 
or governor, resident at Ressant, a town distinguished by a 
magnificent gateway, surrounded with various coloured 
Dutch tiles, symmetrically arranged in a diamond pattern. 
The villages of Ghourland, L'Eksebi, Sosso, and 
Boheim, in the same line, all S. E. of Ressant, are pretty 
near each other : those which I have had an opportunity of 
examining, are nearly of equal size, and contain about eleven 
or twelve hundred inhabitants, all land-holders or merchants. 
The soil of Tafilet is level, composed of sand of an ash 
grey, and very productive j much corn, and all sorts of 
European fruits and vegetables, are cultivated here ; lucern 
thrives well, and when dry is stored for winter provender. 
The natives have fine sheep, with remarkably white 
wool 5 they use it in making very handsome wrappers, 
which are woven by the women. They have also some 
horned cattle, though fewer than the roving tribes^ excellent 
horses, some asses, and many good mules. The horses are 
for the most part the property of the Berbers, who are 
very numerously established in Tafilet, but less addicted to 
