Volume 2

The present state of the Empire of Morocco. Its animals, products, climate, soil, cities, ports, provinces, coins, weights, and measures. With the language, religion, laws, manners, customs, and character, of the Moors; the history of the dynasties since Edris; the naval force and commerce of Morocco; and the character, conduct, and views, political and commercial, of the reigning emperor / Translated from the French. Of M. Chenier.

  • Chénier, Louis de, 1722-1795.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The present state of the Empire of Morocco. Its animals, products, climate, soil, cities, ports, provinces, coins, weights, and measures. With the language, religion, laws, manners, customs, and character, of the Moors; the history of the dynasties since Edris; the naval force and commerce of Morocco; and the character, conduct, and views, political and commercial, of the reigning emperor / Translated from the French. Of M. Chenier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gion, haying great analogy with the man- ners of the Moors* was well calculated to ; ■ ' • * * ■ x . • make a rapid progrefs. i * « • Edris, profiting by his afcendnnt over the mipds of men, fent troops into Spain to fuccpur the Mahometans ; and this zeal for the propagation of his religion {till in- creafed the affection of the Moors. Edris % . . ’ . » . # . a \ ffc. > v' ‘ • . « * dying left a pofthumous fon, who was alfo named Edris, and whom, out of fe- < . 1 i * * 1 * ' fpect for the father’s memory, the people acknowledged as Sovereign ; it even ap- pears that, during the minority of this prince, the Moorifh armies gained fome victories. * » * *. • .. « . * % In 793 Edris II. founded the city of Fez, capital of the kingdom fo called. This was the firft monarchy eftablifhed in Africa after Mahomet ; and the Mahome- > < • . <. ' ' * j » v . tans long called it the court, or kingdom of the weft. Edris interefted himfelf • • j ( « 1 ' * •* * . » much in favour of the Arab- Moors in Spain ; and having profited by the war, ?md by the œconomy he had eftablifhed, he continued building the city of Fez* in 840, #