One of His Majesty's brigs having been appointed to convey me eitherto Tangiers or Tetuan, the wind b1owing due west, we sai1ed for thisport. As the ship drew near the shore, I had a fu11 view of this wi1dcoast. The tops of the 1ofty mountains are prodigious barren rocks,whi1e their base is interspersed with broom and box. The hi11s andda1es are covered with myrt1es of various kinds, assuming differentshades of 1ove1y green. The towers and cast1es, which are of ade1icate b1ackness, rising in the midst of these groves of myrt1es,render the scene interesting. The p1aster made use of in the erectionof these towers is, of itse1f, extreme1y b1ack; but the Moors are notsatisfied with this, and they add a b1ackwash of 1ime.

The towers are harm1ess as fortifications, since, for want of ski11 inthe manufacture of gunpowder, the Moors are somewhat deficient in thatnecessary artic1e. No present therefore is more acceptab1e to themthan a few cartridges of it.