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ploughs they buy of the Arabs near the town, who are subject to it. Some are made in the town. These Arabs manufacture iron from ore found in the country, and are good smiths. They make iron bars of an excellent quality. They tan leather for soles of shoes very well, but know nothing of dressing leather in oil: the upper leather comes from Fas o ; their wooden combs and spoons come from Barbary j they have none of ivory or horn. No lead is brought from Barbary ; he thinks they have lead of their own. The best shoes are brought from Fas.

HUSBANDRY. The country is well cultivated, except on the side of the desert. They have rice, el hislina "j and a corn which they call allila \ but in Barbary it is called drdh : this requires very rich ground. They make bread of el bishna : they have no wheat or barley. Property is fenced by a bank and a ditch. Dews are very heavy. Lands are watered by canals cut from the Nile ; high lands by wells, the water of which is raised by wheels ' worked by cattle, as in Egypt. They ° Leather is also imported from Marocco, and from Terodant in South Barbary.

P Wooden combs are imported from Marseilles to Mogodor.

El Bishna. This is the Arabic name for Indian corn.

Allilay a species of millet.

s A wheel similar to the Persian wheel, as before described iri the note, page 13.