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wards the high mountain which I had seen yesterday; 
and at the foot of which we arrived at a quarter before 
noon. I shifted my direction to S.I S. E; and at a quar- 
ter before four I discovered the tops of several very 
high mountains, which faced us to the south. One of my 
people told me, that the city of Morocco was situated 
a little beyond the highest of the mountains then in 
sight, and still half covered with snow. We stopped 
at a quarter after four. 
We saw plains, from which several tops of high moun- 
tains could be discovered towards the south-east, and 
at a great distance. At ten we began to ascend the 
neighbouring mountains, which successively terminated 
the horizon. When I arrived at the foot of the great 
mountain, it was less than it had appeared to me the 
day before. We then passed a valley, and three brooks 
which cross it; and, getting on a little hillock, I discov- 
ered a new horizon, formed of low hills, and ending 
at a further distance with the chain of the Atlas, which 
commanded the whole southern part of the horizon, 
and from which four gigantic masses, almost standing 
by themselves, seemed to separate. What sensations 
I felt at the sight of this famous chain! 
The ground was like that of yesterday. Afterwards 
I met chalky rocks on the first hillocks; and the great 
mountain contained from top to bottom, and in hori- 
zontal beds, a slaty clay, and clayey slate, of the kind 
which is used for the roofs of houses. 
The ground continued chalky and sandy; but at four 
in the afternoon I found myself on a true bedjof granite 
rock. I examined it closer, and found it to be genuine 
granite, but already in a state of dissolution, arising 
from the conversion of feldspath into porcelain earth. 
It was of a reddish brick colour, slightly mixed with 
