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of the saloon. On both sides of the sepulchre two 
large trunks are placed, to receive the pecuniary offer- 
ings of the faithful. The minaret is the finest and 
highest in Fez, but is not much seen because, being 
seated in the middle of the city, it stands on low 
ground. At the bottom of the minaret is a pleasant 
building with many apartments, from which there is a 
charming prospect; in one of its rooms is a good col- 
lection of clocks, two of which are very handsome: it 
may be easily supposed that these clocks were made in 
Europe; for not only the art of making, but even that 
of cleaning and regulating them, is here entirely un- 
known: they showed me a very old metal one, which 
was quite deranged, and told me that a Moor had made 
it; but from its construction I saw directly the falsity of 
the assertion. 
This sanctuary is, perhaps, the most sacred asylum 
in all the country; the greatest criminal, had he even 
committed the crime of high treason, is there at safe- 
ty, and no one would dare to arrest him. 
The other mosques are small and mean, except thatbe- 
longing to the palace of the sultan, which is large, but 
not of a better construction than the remainder; it has 
no one feature of beauty to distinguish it from the rest. 
The palace of the sultan is composed of a great num- 
ber of court-yards, some of them are half finished, and 
some are already half dilapidated; they serve for en- 
trances into apartments which I have not seen. From 
the first court-yard to the last we met with guards, or 
with closed gates, which are never opened but to the offi - 
cers or servants of the household, or to persons who have . 
a particular privilege. 
In the third court-yard there is a small wooden house, 
not unlike those of the custom-house officers in Europe; 
