Identifier: landofmoorscompr00meak (find matches)
Title: The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Meakin, Budgett
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Sonnenschein & co., lim. New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the North of the principal chain, Central Morocco isdefined by a series of transverse spurs running out to the coast towards Rabat, dividing the northern Ctnlral Morocco. . - , „ . . portion 01 the hmpire into what were oncethe kingdoms of Marrakesh (Morocco) and Fez. Here, aselsewhere throughout the mountainous districts, the Ber-bers hold sway, and even an imperial army can onlypass through by fighting. This part is therefore almostentirely unknown; only De Foucauld and some of theEuropean drill-instructors of the native army havingtraversed it from Tadla to Mequinez. This district hasbeen described as that of the Medium Atlas, and it is tothe south of it that De Foucauld thinks the highest peakswill one day be discovered. To the west of these spurs, stretching along theAtlantic coast till they reach the ridge which runs outto Cape Geer. lie the extensive series of plains anduplands known as the Hauz, or Central Provinces. Theirdistinctive names are—as one travels from north to
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^^ PHYSICAL FEATURES south—Tamsna, Shaweea, Dukalla, Abda, Shiadhma, and Haha, with Shragna and Rahamna lying inland from the last three. From these three the northern tins am third, Shawcca and Tamsna, are divided by JCt7e)s. • the principal Moorish river, clear and deep, the Um er-Rabia, (Mother of Grass ), which debouches by Azammur; a river which has often been the boundary between contending dynasties and rival sovereigns. To the early Arabs the whole of Morocco was known as Sus, the Um er-Rabia forming the division between Sus el Adna or Hither Sus to the north, and Sus el Aksa or Further Sus to the south. The Melwiya was the frontier to the east. Further north, the Bu Ragrag * (Father of Glittering), — which once offered shelter to the Salli rovers, and had been the southern limit of the ancient Mauretania—forms a boundary to Tamsna, and bears off the waters of the central ranges on their western side. The red-streamed Tansift, which, with its tributary the Nfees, drain

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