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MOGODORE

Volume 14 · 186 words · 1823 Edition

or MAGADORE, a large, uniform, and well built town in the kingdom of Morocco, situated about 350 miles from Tangier on the Atlantic ocean, and surrounded on the land side by deep and heavy sands. The European factory here consists of about a dozen mercantile houses of different nations, whose owners, from the protection granted them by the emperor, live in full security from the Moors, whom indeed they keep at a rigid distance. They export, to America, mules; to Europe, Morocco leather, hides, gum arabic, gum sandarac, ostrich feathers, copper, wax, wool, elephants teeth, fine mats, beautiful carpeting, dates, figs, raisins, olives, almonds, oil, &c. In return, they import timber, artillery of all kinds, gunpowder, woollen cloths, linens, lead, iron in bars, all kinds of hardware and trinkets, such as looking glasses, snuff boxes, watches, small knives, &c. tea, sugar, spices, and most of the useful articles which are not otherwise to be procured in this empire. The town is regularly fortified on the sea side; and on the land, batteries are so placed as to prevent any incursion from the southern Arabs, who MOG