300
lb. The _adamoh_ is the date that is imported to this country; it
is the best for keeping, but at Tafilelt they use it only for the
cattle, considering it an unwholesome kind and heavy of digestion.
81 The country from the eastern declivity of Atlas to Tafilelt, and to
the eastward of Tafilelt, even unto Seginmessa is one continued
barren plain of a brown sandy soil impregnated with salt, so that
if you take up the earth it has a salt flavour; the surface also
has the appearance of salt, and if you dig a foot deep, a brackish
water ooses up. On the approach, to within a day's journey of
Tafilelt, however, the country is covered with the most magnificent
plantations and extensive forests of the lofty date, exhibiting the
most elegant and picturesque appearance that nature, on a plain
surface, can present to the admiring eye. In these forests there is
no underwood, so that a horseman may gallop through them without
impediment. Wheat is cultivated near the river, and honey is
produced of an exquisite quality. The faith and honour of the
(filelly) inhabitants of Tafilelt is proverbial; a robbery has not
been known within the memory of man; they use neither locks nor
keys, having no need of either!

Having had my audience of leave of the Emperor, I prepared to
proceed to Mogodor, but before I describe the country through which
we passed thither, it may not perhaps be uninteresting to give some
account of the Imperial gardens at Marocco, which are three, the
_Jenan Erdoua_, the _Jenan El Afia_, and the _Jenan En. neel_: the
last is confined to plants brought from the Egyptian Nile. The
_Jenan El Afia_, and the _Jenan Erdoua_, contain oranges, citrons,
82 vines, figs, pomegranates, water and musk melons, all of exquisite
flavour. The orange and fig trees are here as large as a middling
sized English oak. Roses are so abundant at Marocco that they grow
every where, and have a most powerful perfume, insomuch that one
rose scents a large room; all other flowers are in abundance, and
many that are nursed with care in English hot-houses are seen in
the Marocco plains growing spontaneously. These gardens, as well as
others throughout the country, are watered by the Persian or
Arabian wheel, with pitchers fixed to it, which discharge the water
into a trough