90 LEPERS* TOWN, NEAR MAROCCO.

the cadus, who has a noble mansion, replete with every convenience, and a garden in the centre of it. The rooms of this house were long and narrow, with a pair of high doors in the centre of the room, through which alone the light is admitted ; the floors were paved with small glazed tiles, about two inches square, very neatly fitted, and of different colours ; the walls were the same, a mode of building which in this warm climate imparts a grateful coolness; the ceilings are painted in the Araberque style, with brilliant colours. The roofs are of terras, and flat, having an insensible declivity, just sufficient to give the rain that falls a course, which falling into the pipes, is received in the (mitfere) a subterraneous cistern, which supplies the family with water the whole year, till the rainy season returns again.

There is near to the walls of Marocco, about the north-west point, a village, called (DesJiira el Jeddann) L e, the Village of Lepers.

I had a curiosity to visit this village ; but I was told that any other excursion would be preferable ; that the Lepers were totally excluded from the rest of mankind ; and that, although pone of them would dare to approach us, yet the excursion would be not only unsatisfactory but disgusting. I was, however, determined to go; I mounted my horse, and took two horse-guards with me, and my own servant. We rode through the Lepers' town ; the inhabitants collected at the doors of their habitations.