TRAVELS Itf BARBARY. 
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thousand can now perform the most elementary 
operations. Medicine and chemistry are in a state 
of equal depression ; nor do there appear to re- 
main even any traditionary practices to attest the 
period when these sciences formed the glory of the 
Saracen name. 
In 1789? a request was transmitted to Mr Matra, 
British consul at Tangier, from Muley Absulem, 
the favourite son of the emperor of Morocco, that 
an English medical man should be sent, to relieve; 
if possible, the precarious state in which his health 
then was. Liberal promises were made to the per- 
son who should undertake this journey. Mr Lem- 
priere, surgeon, then resident at Gibraltar, was in- 
duced to consent, and obtained thus very intimate 
views of the manners and interior arrangements of 
this barbarous court. 
The prince being resident at Tarudant, Mr Lem- 
priere travelled in the first instance along the coast 
of Morocco, but, till his arrival at Tarudant, no- 
thing particularly novel occurred. This city, for- 
merly the capital of a kingdom, is now only the 
chief place of the province of Suz, and a great part 
of the space enclosed within the ancient walls is 
unoccupied. The houses have apartments only 
on the ground floor, and as each is surround- 
ed by a garden and wall, with numerous palm 
trees intermixed, the whole has the appearance 
rather of a collection of hamlets, or even of coun- 
