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HOUSES, STREETS, MARKET. 
some manufactories of Delft ware and tiles. The houses 
have terraced roofs like those of Timbuctoo, and are built of 
bricks perfectly well formed and baked in a kiln. Their 
masonry is not very correct : small, square and strongly 
grated windows overlook the streets ; and the outsides, 
which are lime-washed, are much out of repair ; they have 
generally a story above the ground- floor, which receives air 
and light only from an inner court. 
The streets are paved, but narrow, winding, dark, and 
dirty to the last degree ; I saw in some places, dogs and cats 
which had been long dead and emitted a pestilential stench. 
These streets are nothing more than galleries covered 
by trellises or masonry, which deprive them of a free cir- 
culation of air, concentrate all the disagreeable effluvia of 
the city, and render it very unwholesome. 
The principal manufactures of Fez are blankets and 
gunpowder ; ploughs and wooden spades are also made there, 
and the city contains locksmiths, cutlers, shoemakers, 
tailors, masons, blacksmiths, who likewise act as far- 
riers, and gunsmiths, but the fabrication of their guns falls 
far short of the perfection of ours. 
Shops may be found in most quarters of the town 
furnished with all sorts of provisions, dried or otherwise ; as 
bread, meat, butter, pastry, fruit, and vegetables. As there 
are no inns, travellers without acquaintance in the city 
have no other resource than to buy what they want at these 
shops, and to carry it to the mosque or to the fandac to eat. 
A market is held every day ; it is attended by a great 
concourse of strangers, who come from great distances to 
sell their commodities : great quantities of dates and tanned 
leather are brought to this market from Tafilet ; the inha- 
bitants of the mountains supply it with honey and wax, of 
which last candles are made, not only for home consump- 
tion, but for large consignments to the principal maritime 
towns. 
