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for I had declared to the captain and some others, that 
after the behaviour of Mulei Soliman at my departure 
from Laraish, I should not want his protection any more, 
and this proceeding increased the pasha's and his court's 
respect for me. In the mean while I went very little 
out of my house, except to go to the mosque, to pay 
some ceremonial visits, or to take a walk* This seclusion, 
which was partly for the sake of doing away entirely the 
recollection of the Morocco alFair, partly on account of 
the ramadan, and a trifling indisposition, confined my 
researches. As to my astronomical observations con- 
cerning the lunary distances, I only made a few of them, 
as I could not mount the roof of the house, but was 
obliged to chuse the corridor for the spot from which I 
directed my observations. However, those with re- 
gard to the latitude are very satisfactory. 
The results proved the longitude of Tripoli to be at 
11° 8' 30" east from Paris; the latitude 32° 56' 38" N. 
andfthe magnetical declination 18° 41' 2" W. 
Tripoli in Barbary is named by the natives Tarables* 
This town is much handsomer than any in the kingdom 
of Morocco. It is situated on the sea- shore, and its 
streets are straight and pretty large. 
Its houses are regular, well built, and are almost all of 
a dazzling white; the architecture approaches more to 
the European than the Arabian style; the gates are ge- 
nerally in the Tuscan style. The stone columns, and 
the arches of the courts, are of a round form, whereas 
those of Morocco are pointed. It is very common to 
see stone buildings; and even marble is employed for 
the construction of the courts, gates, stairs, and mosques. 
