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There is no other remarkable building to be seen at 
Fez. The houses of Muley Abdsulem, and other per- 
sons of the first rank, have nothing which distinguish 
them externally from the habitations of the people. The 
inside is not much better excepting their gardens. The 
sultan's garden is near the palace; it is but a com- 
mon kitchen garden with some trees, and a few buil- 
dings for ornament. It is called Bouchelou. 
The river of Fez crosses the palace. Entering the 
town, it divides into two arms, which furnish water 
in abundance to the houses and mosques, so that there 
is scarcely a house without a fountain. The least con- 
siderable buildings have two and sometimes more of 
them. 
The town has many water mills. 
The number of shops is so very great as to give an 
appearance of a population of three or four hundred 
thousand inhabitants. But it is necessary to observe, 
that this multitude of shops forms a sort of continual 
fair to which the inhabitants of the country and of the 
mountains daily resort to purchase what they want. 
These people being divided into small douars, have 
neither shops nor work places of any kind among them- 
selves, and are therefore obliged to supply themselves in 
the town. 
The markets for provisions are very numerous, and 
may be compared to the European ones with regard to 
the abundance of ail kind of productions. There is 
also plenty of shops were victuals ready dressed are 
to be had, as in most of the large towns of Europe 
The various trades and the different articles for sale 
are divided into classes in separate streets, so that one 
sees a whole street occupied only by one profession or 
one kind of trade; others are filled with shops for cloth, 
