DESCRIPTION OF RABAT. \% Rabat is the largest town on the coast of the empire, it is walled round ; its circumference is about four miles ; an aqueduct conveys abundance of water to the town from a distance of several miles. The mausoleum of the sultan Muhamed, father to the present sultan Soliman, is in the town of Rabat, it is a neat building, surrounded by a colonade ; here is a lamp continually burning, and a muden , who is a fakeer, is continually proclaiming the omnipotence of God, and that Muhamed is the prophet. *' La Allah, ila Allah, wa Muhamed rassul AllahJ There is a very strong battery towards the sea, at the mouth of the river, which is bomb proof. The city wall is high, and is strengthened by several bastions mounting cannon : towards the land, about a mile from Rabat, there is a spring, reported to have been discovered by the Romans, and near it is the Roman town of Sheila, which none but musulmen are permitted to enter. In it are said to be the tombs of two sultans, but most probably of Roman generals. Kettles or pans of coins are continually found by the people who dig the ground at this place, and the coins found are Roman. Some European travellers enhanced the price of these coins so much, by their eagerness to purchase them, that they offered more than double their intrinsic value, so that the Jews imitated them so well that they The muden is the man who ascends the tower of the Mosque and announces prayer.