An account of the empire of Marocco, and the districts of Suse and Tafilelt; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries. To which is added an account of shipwrecks on the western coast of Africa, and an interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of Central Africa

by James Grey Jackson

FOOTNOTES:

[7]Marakusha in the original Arabic; and called by the Spaniards Marruecos.

[8]Commonly called Tafilet.

[9]In many maps called Tremecin.

[10]Commonly called Sigelmessa.

[11]Commonly called Biledulgerid.

[12]It is through this province that the chain of mountains called the Lesser Atlas passes, viz. from Tangier to Bona, in the Kingdom of Algiers.

[13]Commonly called Fez.

[14]The Atlas mountains are called in Arabic Jibbel Attils, i.e. the mountains of snow; hence, probably, the word Atlas.

[15]Zian is a warlike tribe; it lately opposed an imperial army of upwards of thirty thousand men. This Kabyle is defended from attacks by rugged and almost inaccessible passes.