MAROCCO
AND
THE GREATATLAS
From a Drawing by W. Prinsep,December 1829
PANORAMA OF THE GREAT ATLAS FROM THE CITY OF MAROCCO
JOURNAL OF
A TOUR IN MAROCCO
AND
THE GREAT ATLAS
BY
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, K.C.S.I.,C.B.
PRES. R.S.
DIRECTOR OF THEROYAL GARDENS, KEW; ETC.
AND
JOHN BALL, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.
ETC.
WITH ANAPPENDIX
including
A SKETCH of the GEOLOGY ofMAROCCO, by GEORGE MAW, F.L.S., F.G.S.
CAPE SPARTEL
London
MACMILLAN ANDCO.
1878
All rights reserved
PREFACE.
The expedition of which anaccount is given in the following pages was undertaken in the year1871, and it was originally intended that a narrative of theproceedings should be given to the public soon after our return toEngland. Sir Joseph D. Hooker, who made careful notes throughoutthe journey, hoped to complete the work without much delay, andactually wrote the greater part of the first two chapters; but theconstant demands upon his time arising from his official duties atKew, and the important botanical works to which he is a chiefcontributor, further increased by his election, in 1873, to thePresidency of the Royal Society, so far interfered with thecompletion of the original design as to compel him to request hisfellow-traveller, Mr. Ball, to undertake the completion of thework. The latter was at the time engaged in preparing forpublication a memoir on the Flora of Marocco, which has sinceappeared in the Journal o