ather
manufacturers, well versed in their art, and withal of penetrating
minds, might contrive to extract the secret from them. In the
mountains of Idaultit, in Lower Suse, they have iron-mines, and
they make gun-barrels and gun-locks equal to what are made at Fas.
The temptations to agriculture, however, are such, that sufficient
only for the consumption of their own _kabyl_ are manufactured;
which is done rather from a principle of self-defense, and from the
_amor patriae_, than with a view to gain. The silver from the mines
of Elala, comes to the Santa Cruz market pure, and in round lumps,
weighing about two ounces each. I have bought it for its weight in
Spanish dollars; but it is generally taken to the Mint for sale.
Ores of gold from the mines of South Barbary, and silver dust from
the bed of the river at Messa, collected personally by me, I sent
to England to be assayed: the person who got them assayed,
reported, that the metal yielded was scarcely sufficient to pay the
charges of assaying; so that the speculation was abandoned.

[Footnote 156: The spirit of avarice does not sufficiently
prevail to induce the manufacturer to make imperfect articles
for the purpose of sale only. Moreover, they are restrained
from deception by an officer, who inspects the quality of
manufactures, and does not suffer an imperfect article to be
sold.]

[Footnote 157: This word is called by Europeans _haram_ or
seraglio; but haram thus applied, is a barbarism: it signifies
_vicious_. Horam is the correct pronunciation: it signifies a
place of safety, that admits of no intrusion.]

[Footnote 158: Thales, the chief of the seven wise men of
Greece, detected the existence of electricity in amber about
600 years before the Christian era. He was the first who
observed _attraction_ to be the distinguishing property of
amber; and he was so forcibly struck with this singular
discovery, that he was almost led to suppose that it possessed
animation. The term electricity is derived from the Greek word
[Greek: electron], amber. See Remarks on Electricity and
Galvanism, by M. La Beaume, p. 29.]

[Footnote 159: There was a breed of these goats on the island
of Mogodor, kept there b