OF FAS. 217 ' ral ignorance ofthe language ofthat country, that we might long since have received from the manufacturers of Fas, shawls of Tafilelt goat-hair, equal to the finest of the Kashmere manufacture. There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation. There is also a manufactory of gun locks and barrels ; the former appear to have reached the acme of the art, the latter are not so good as those which they procure from Europe : so that a Spanish or an English barrel, and a Fas lock, is considered a complete gun. Such articles of manufacture as require a complication ofmachinery and power to produce they import from Europe, except only when the market is bare, and then necessity compels them to attempt their construction. The (hai/k Filelli/,) i.e. Tafilelt hayk, is a fine elegant woollen cloth, thin as a muslin. The Emperor Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah patronised this manufacture of his native country, and never wore any other. The art of manufacturing leather is carried to great perfection at Mequinas : shoes of the thinnest leather are there made impervious to water. The manufactures at Marocco and Terodant are similar to those of Fas, with the exception of that of gold-thread, and the cutting and polishing of precious stones. The preparation of leather atMarocco surpasses any thing known in Europe : lion and tiger skins they prepare white as snow, and soft as silk. There are two plants that grow in the Atlas