208 ABUNDANCE OF CORN PRODUCED IN WEST BARBARY.

Costly Presents made bij Spain to the Emperor.— Bashaw of Duquellas weekly Present ofa Bar of Gold.— Mitferes or S2d)tei'raneous Depositariesfor Corn.

1 HE empire of Marocco, west of the Atlas, during the reign of Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah, father of the present Emperor Sohman, was one continued corn-field. At that time the exportation was free to all parts ofthe world. It is impossible to conceive the abundance produced in this prolific land, none but those who have actually seen the standing corn in the ear, and have seen it reaped, can form any correct idea of its prodigious increase. The plains of Rahamena, of Shawiya, of Temsena, of Abda, and Duquella, those immense plains of M'sharrah Rummellah, of Ait-Amor, and many others, form each, separately, extensive fields of corn, farther than the eye can reach. To give an idea of the quantity produced in the plains near Dar El Beida, it will be sufficient to say, that 250 sail of ships, from 150 to 700 tons, were loaded at that port in one year of Seedy Muhamed's reign.

At the other ports on the shores of the Atlantic, viz. at Arzilla, L'Araich, Meheduma, Rabat,