Among The
Consuls' Villas, Some Of Which Are Built Near The Spot Where The
_Socco_ Is Held, That Of The Swedish Consul Is The Most Worthy Of
Notice.
The pleasure-ground is laid out with great taste in orange
groves; the gardens abound in fruit-trees, and the Consul has made a
curious botanical collection.
I have just been interrupted by Mr. Matra, our Consul. He called to
request me to go up to Larache, to attend the Governor, who is
dangerously ill, and has sent here for an English physician. I
intended to have continued a brief account of this empire, from the
time it became a Roman province to the introduction of Mahometanism;
also by what means the Moors became mixed with Arabs: but I must
reserve this for the next opportunity.
LETTER II.
_Sketch of the History of Morocco - Road from Tangiers - Simplicity of
the Peasants - Moors hospitable - Arrive at a Village - The ancient
Zelis - Public Accommodations - Much infested with Vermin - Arzilla, a
ruinous walled Town - Arrive at Larache_.
Larache, January 1806.
Before I proceed to give you the particulars of my journey to this
place, I shall fulfil tho promise I made you in my last.
The present empire of Morocco is properly the _Mauritania Tingitania_
of the Romans, as the _Mauritania Caesariensis_ comprised
Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis; and was so called from the Emperor
Claudius. _Tingitania_ was not decidedly reduced to a Roman province
till after the death of _Bocchus_. Augustus afterwards gave the two
Mauritanias, and a part of _Getulia_, to the younger _Juba_, as a
remuneration for the loss of his father's kingdom
(_Numidia_). _Ptolemy_, his son, by _Cleopatra_ (daughter of _Antony_
and _Cleopatra_), succeeded him.
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