AND ANECDOTES. 331 the season of reaping; it has, perhaps never been known, tliat these partitions have been removed for the purpose of encroachment ; a mutual confidence, and a point of honour renders this mode of discriminating the respective property of individuals adequate to every purpose of hedge or ditch.

Mines.

The mountains that separate the province of Suse from that of Draha, abound in iron, copper, and lead. Ketiwa, a district on the declivity of Atlas, east of Terodant, contains also mines of lead and brimstone ; and saltpetre alk) of a superior quality, abounds in the neighbourhood of Terodant. In the same mountains, about Mty or sixty miles south-west of Terodant, there are mines of iron of a very malleable quality, equal to that of Biscay in Spain, from which the people of Tagrasert manufacture gunbarrels, equal to those made in Europe. At Elala in Suse, in the same ridge of mountains, are several rich mines of copper, some of which' sae impregnated with gold': they have also a rich; silver mine, the metial of which latter is cast* in round lumps, weighing two or three ounces each piece, I have bought of this silver at Santa Cruz, and have paid Spanish dollars for it, weight for weight ; it is very pure Mines of antimony and lead are re-also- found m Suse, impregnated with gold.