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TETUAN

Volume 21 · 218 words · 1860 Edition

a seaport of Morocco, in the province of Fez, on a rugged hill, near the shore of the Mediterranean, 33 miles S.E. of Tangier, N. Lat. 35° 37', W. Long. 50° 18'. It is surrounded by walls flanked with towers, and has on the summit of the hill a castle containing the governor's residence. The houses are wretched, and the streets narrow, unpaved, and dirty. The only noticeable buildings are the mosques, some of which are handsome. The principal manufactures of the town are gun-barrels, coarse woollen cloth, woollen and silk sashes. Of these, woollen sashes are the only articles exported in any large quantities, and they are chiefly sent to Spain. In the vicinity there are rich veins of copper, but they have not as yet been successfully worked. The harbour of Tetuan is at some distance from the town, at the mouth of the small river Martil. Here are store-houses, a custom-house, and the residence of a British vice-consul. The roadstead is exposed; and the bar of the river can only be passed by vessels under thirty tons burden. There is some trade with the interior of Morocco through Fez. Tetuan has been taken by the Spaniards in the recent war with Morocco. Pop. estimated at 16,000, of whom about 4000 are Jews, and 2000 negroes.