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There were two galleons building on the wharf ^ 
which will make the whole amount to 13 ships ofcwar* 
Tripoli has six mosques of the first rank, with mina- 
rets, and six smaller ones. 
The great mosque is magnificent, and of a handsome 
architecture. The roof, composed of small cupolas, 
is supported by sixteen elegant Doric columns of a 
fine grey marble, which, are said, to have been taken 
in a Christian vessel. It was built by the grandfather 
of Sidi Yusuf. This building, as well as others of the 
same kind, are by far superior to those of Morocco; 
they are of a majestic elevation, and have lofty galle- 
ries for the singers, like European churches; they are 
cove red with carpets, whereas the mosques even of the 
sultan of Morocco's palace, have nothing but common 
mats, except that of Mulei Edris at Fez, which was al- 
so covered with carpets. 
The minarets of Tripoli are of a cylindrical form* 
very lofty, and with a gallery round them at the upper 
part, in the middle of which, another small steeple like a 
sentry-box is constructed. From this gallery the mued- 
den or crier at the appointed hours, summons the peo- 
ple to prayers. 
The worship is plainer and more mystical at Moroc- 
co; here it is complicated and pompous. On Fridays 
at noon several singers begin. the ceremony by singing 
verses from the koran. The iman mounts his private 
pulpit, which is nothing else but a staircase as at Mo- 
rocco, with the difference that it is here of stone, where- 
as at Morocco it is of wood. He turns towards the wal , 
and in a low voice recites a prayer; which done, he turns 
