DESCRIPTION OF TAFILELT. 81 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 TafiJelt 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 Erdoiui the Jenan El Afia, and the Jenan En neel : the last is confined to plants brought from the Egyptian Nile. The Jeiian ElAfia, and the Jenati Erdoua, contain oranges, citrons, vines, G