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he often came to me and was as miserably dressed as all 
the rest. Among the women of this religion who go in- 
to the streets with unveiled faces, I have seen some that 
were handsome, and even of great beauty. Most of 
them are of a fair complexion. Their rose and jasmin 
faces would charm Europeans; their delicate features 
are very expressive, and their eyes enchanting These 
perfect beauties, worthy to serve as models to a Grecian 
sculptor, are treated with disdain, and, like all the oth- 
ers, obliged to walk bare foot, and to prostrate themselves 
before ugly negro women who live with the mussulmen. 
The male infants of the Jews are also handsome, but 
as they grow up they get common, and the Jews of a 
certain age are all ugly. It is possible that the shocking 
slavery in which they live may cause this change in their 
countenances. 
The Jews exercise several arts and professions. 
They are the only goldsmiths, tinmen, and taylors that 
are at Morocco. The Moors are the shoemakers, car- 
penters, masons, smiths, and hhaik weavers. 
The town of Morocco was formerly surrounded with 
gardens and plantations, which extended to a great dis- 
tance. In order to water these gardens the w r ater was 
conducted from many thousands of fountains, which had 
their sources in the mountains of the Atlas, by conduits 
or open rivulets, or by some subterraneous aqueducts. 
Of all these vast works there are nothing but ruins to 
be seen, and it is painful to observe the destruction of 
these numerous canals and the deserts which are now 
replacing a former fertile and productive ground. There 
are, however, still some conduits remaining, which pro- 
vide the necessary water, and furnish several gardens. 
