464 VARIOUS LETTERS (to the editor of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.)

Sir, Liverpool, Dec. 17. 1818.

In " The Portfolio,'' a Monthly Miscellany for May, 1817> published at Philadelphia, there is rather an interesting review of Ali Bey's travels. The writer says, ** Ali Bey has rectified various errors in the common maps of Marocco. The river Luccos, for instance, flows to the South, and not to the North of Alcasser ; and the city of Fas, according to Ali Bey, is situated in 34 6' north latitude, and not as laid down in the Maps of Arrowsmith, Rennell, Delille, Golberri, &c."— If, however, he had given himself the trouble to consult the map ofWest Barbary, in Jackson's Account of Marocco, &c. &c.

(which is by far the most accurate extant, and whose geographical orthography has been adopted in all the best modern English maps,) he would have seen that Fas is in 34 north latitude j that the river Elkos, or Luccos, is described in that map, (which was published several years before Ali Bey's travels,) as running south of Alcasser, In describing the funeral cry at Marocco, the editor, or reviewer, impresses his reader with an idea that this funeral cry is that ofthe Moors, whereas it is no such thing : it is the practice of the Jews only in West Barbary to cry " Ah !

Ah !" and lacerate their faces with their finger