Marocco

P. L. 1. 584; (See also Almansor.) 11. 404; Animadv. (16. 148) 3. 241. A counfy of northwestern Africa, and its capital city. “This region is in a manner three square, being a most pleasant country, and abounding with many droves and flockes of cattell; it is greene every where, and most fertile of all things which serve for food, or which delight the senses of smelling or seeing.” (Leo The chief city is described as follows: “This noble citie of Maroco in Africa is accounted to be one of the African us, p. 256.) greatest cities in the whole world.... Here you may behold great abundance of temples, of colleges, of bath-stoves, and of innes, all framed after the fashion and custom of that region. was built a Temple by him that was the second usurper over the king do me of Maroco: after whose death his nephew Mansor enlarged the said Temple fiftie cubites on all sides, and adorned the same with many pillars, which he commanded to be brought out of Spain for that purpose. Such monuments of antiquity as are yet extant in Maroco, albeit they are but few, do notwithstanding sufficiently argue … In this citie.... what a noble citie it was in the time of Mansor.” Marseilles. See Ma ilia. 198