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town; it was situated in the market place, near the 
principal mosque* 
Notwithstanding these advantages, I could not make 
any lunary observations, as I dared not get on the top 
of the house. My longitude, however, was well estab- 
lished, by the eclipses of the satellites; and I found it to 
be at 8° 2 1' 45" W. from the Parisian observatory. The 
latitude I computed to be 35° 13' 15" N. ; my magneti- 
cal declination 21° 39' 15" W. The climate was very 
mild, and the same as in Andalusia. 
The town is surrounded with red sand, which I took 
for feldspath, reduced to powder, with much disposition 
to conglutinate. The southern rock was formed of hori- 
zontal strata, very thin, much approaching each other, 
of a slaty texture, and cut in a perpendicular direction 
on the sea- shore. These strata of the rock are entirely 
formed by the red sand, which has conglutinated into 
a thin slaty ^texture. 
There are some gardens at Larash. The victuals are 
good, and the water, though a little hard, is not unwhole- 
some. 
In consequence of the violent journey from Oushda, 
I was taken ill for ten days. Some of my people and 
cattle were also indisposed and lame;, however, we had 
none dead, except one mule. I took some sea bathing, 
upon which occasion I did not forget my collections, 
for I gathered several maritime productions, 
A corvette from Tripolis was in this port, where it 
had laid several months. The sultan ordered it to be 
, fitted out at his cost; and the cabin in the stern was as-" 
signed to me for my passage to the east* I examined 
