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merits both above and below, furnifhed la a flyle far fu-* 
perior to any thing our author ever faw in that country. 
The court, into whicjt the lower apartments opened, was 
very neatly paved with glazed blue-and-white tiling, and 
had in its centre a beautiful fountain. The upper apart¬ 
ments were conne-fted together by a broad gallery, the 
balufters of which were painted of different colours. 
The hot and cold baths w'ere very large, and had every 
convenience which art could afford. Into the garden, 
which was laid out in a tolerably-neat ftyle, opened a 
room adjoining to the houfe, which had a broad arched 
entrance but no door, beautifully ornamented with che¬ 
quered tiling; and at both ends of the apartment the 
walls were entirely covered with looking-glafs. The 
flooring of all the rooms was covered with beautiful car¬ 
peting, the walls ornamented with large and valuable 
looking-glaffes, intermixed with watches and clocks in 
glafs cafes. The ceiling was carved wood-work, painted 
of different colours; and the whole was in a luperior 
ftyle of Moorifh grandeur. This and a few others are 
the only decent habitations in Morocco. The generality 
of them ferve only to imprefs the traveller with the idea of 
a milerable and deferted city. 
The Kaffaria is a particular part of the town where 
fluffs and other valuable articles are expofed to fale. It 
confifts of a number of fmall fliops, formed in the walls 
of the houfes, about a yard from the ground, of fuch a 
height within as juft to admit a man to fit in one of them 
crofs-legged. The goods and drawers are fo arranged 
round him, that, when he ferves his cuftomers, who are 
Handing all the time out in the ftreet, he can reach down 
any article he w'ants without being under the neceffity of 
moving. Thefe fliops, which are found in all the other 
towns of the empire, are fufflcient to afford a ftriking ex¬ 
ample of the indolence of the Moors. There are three 
daily markets in dift’erents parts of the town of Morocco 
where provifions are fold, and two weekly fairs or markets 
for the difpofal of cattle. The city is fupplied with water 
by means of wooden pipes connected with the neighbour¬ 
ing ftreams, which empty themfelves into refervoirs 
placed for the purpofe in the fuburbs, and fome few in 
the centre of the town. 
The caftle is a large and ruinous building, the outer 
walls of which enclofe a fpace of ground about three 
miles in circumference. It has a mofque, on the top of 
which are three large balls, formed, as the Moors allege, 
of folid gold, and weighing i205lbs. avoirdupois. The 
caftle is almoft a town of itfelf; it contains a number of 
inhabitants, who in fome department or other are in the 
fervice of the emperor, and all under the direction of 
a particular alcaide, who is quite independent of the go¬ 
vernor of the town. On the outfide of the caftle, between 
the Moorilh town and the Jewdry, are leveral fmall dif- 
tinft pavilions, enclofed in gardens of orange-trees, 
which are intended as occafional places of reftdence for 
fuch of the emperor’s fons or brothers as happen to be at 
Morocco. As they are covered with coloured tiling, they 
have at a fmall diftance rather a neat appearance ; but, upon 
approaching or entering them, that effeft in a great mea- 
fure ceafes. 
The Jews, who are at this place pretty numerous, have 
a feparate town to themfelves, walled in, and under the 
charge of an alcaide, appointed by the emperor. It has 
two large gates, which are regularly ihut every evening 
about nine o'clock ; after which time no perfon whatever 
is permitted to enter or go out of the Jewdry till they are 
opened again the following morning. The Jews have a 
market of their own ; and, when they enter the Moonlit 
town, caftle, or palace, they are always compelled to be 
barefooted. 
The palace is an ancient building, furrounded by a 
fquare wall, the height of which nearly excludes from the 
view of the fpeftator the other buildings. Its principal 
gates are conftrufted with gothic arches, compofed of cut 
ftone, which conduct to feveral open and fpacious courts; 
Von. XVI. No. 1089. 
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through thefe it Is neceflary to pafs before we reach any 
of the buildings. . Thefe courts were ufed by the late em¬ 
peror for the purpofes of t ran (lifting public bufmefs and 
exerciftng his troops. The habitable part confifts of feve¬ 
ral irregular fquare pavilions, built of tabby, and whitened 
over ; fome of which communicate with each other, others 
are diftinft, and moil of them receive their names from the 
different towns of the empire. The principal pavilion is 
named by the Moors the douhar, and is more properly the 
palace or feraglio than any of the others. It confifts of 
the emperor’s place of refidence and the harem, forming 
all together a building of coniiderable extent. The other 
pavilions are merely for the purpofes of pleafure or bufi- 
nefs, and are quite diffinfl from the douhar. The 31 o- 
gadore pavilion, fo named from the late emperor’s par¬ 
tiality to that town, has by far the faireft claim to gran¬ 
deur and magnificence. This apartment was the work of 
Sidi Mahomet, and is lofty and fquare. It is built of cut- 
ftone, liandfomely ornamented with windows, and co¬ 
vered with varniftied tiles of various colours; and its ele¬ 
gance and neatnefs, contrafted altogether with the fimpli- 
city and irregularity of the other buildings, produce a mod 
ftriking effect. To this pavilion the late emperor mani- 
fefted an exclufive preference, frequently retiring to it 
both for the purpofe of bufmefs and of recreation. The 
apartments of the emperor have in general a much fmaller 
complement of furniture than thole of the Moors in the 
inferior walks of life. Handfome carpeting, a mattrefs 
on the ground covered with fine linen, a couch, and a 
couple of European bedfteads, are the principal articles 
they contain. The gardens within the walls of the pa¬ 
lace, of which he has feveral, are very neat; they con¬ 
tain orange and olive trees, varioufly difpofed and ar¬ 
ranged, and interfered with ftreams of water, fountains,, 
and refervoirs. Thofe on the outfide are nothing more 
than large tradis of ground, irregularly planted with 
olives ; having four fquare walks, and furrounded by 
walls. Lat. 30. 57. N. Ion. 7. o. W. Chenier's Morocco „ 
Lempriere's Tour , 1791. Jaclijoris Account of the Empire 
of Morocco, 1809. 
MOROC'CO, or Marroquin, f [French.] The fkirc 
of a goat, or fome other animal refembling it, dreffed in 
fumach or galls, and coloured at pleafure ; much ufed in 
book-binding, &c. The name is commonly derived from 
the kingdom of Morocco, whence it is fuppofed the man¬ 
ner of preparing thefe (kins was firft borrowed. We have 
Morocco (kins brought from the Levant, Barbary, Spain, 
Flanders, and France ; red, black, yellow, blue, &c. For 
the manner of preparing them, fee the article Leather, 
vol. xii. p. 424. 
MOROCCO (Red), in botany. See Adonis. 
MOROCH'I, a town of Mexico, in New Bifcay : fe- 
venty-five miles eafc-fouth-eaft of Parral. 
MOROCH'THUS, f in mineralogy. See Talcum 
fmeftis. 
MOROKIN'NE, or Morotinnee, one of the fmall 
Sandwich Iflands, between the fouth-weft coaft of Mowes 
and the ifland of Tahoorowa. Lat. 20. 37. N. Ion. 233. 
31. E. 
MOROL'OGIST,/. [from morologij.} A prating fool- 
ilh fellow. Scott. 
MOROL'OGY, f. [from the Gr. ftopo?, foolifli, and 
Xoyo;, a word.] Silly fpeech, foolifli talking. Scott. 
MO'RON, a town of France, in the department of the 
Morbjhan : nine miles north-north-eaft of Ploermel, an^ 
thirty north-eail of Vannes. 
MO'RON, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville : 
twenty-three miles eaft-louth-eaft of Seville. 
MORO'NA, a river of South America, which rifee 
about twenty miles fouth-eaft of Riobamba, and runs 
into the Maragnon forty miles eaft of St, Francifco d* 
Borja. 
MORO'NE (John), a cardinal and ftatefman, born afc 
Milan in 1509, was foil of Jerome Morone, grand chan¬ 
cellor of Milan, an eminent political character. John was 
li educated 
