Identifier: travelsinatlasso00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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82 feet. My experience with the twodifferent instruments leads me to accept my ownobservation as probably the more correct. Bearingon this point I may mention that among the moun-tains my aneroid, differed from the B.P.T. to theextent of several hundred feet, each ascent producinga new error in the reading. Yet on starting, andon returning to the coast, the aneroid read cor-rectly, and agreed with the B.P.T. Consequently,if I had relied entirely on the former, and had nothad the latter to compare it with, I should have leftMorocco with the impression that I had been in pos-session of an admirably correct instrument, w^hereas inreality the readings among the mountains would havebeen enormously wrong. It must, therefore, be under-stood that the elevations given in these pages and theaccompanying map are either deduced from the tem-perature of the boiling-point—as is the case with allthe important points—or from aneroid readings cor-rected by the B.P.T. This fact will explain the re-
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TIILUET ro AM SMI Z. 283 markable discrepancies wliicli geograpliers will not fullto note between my elevations and those given by suchtrained and accurate observers as Hooker and Ball. The population of the town of Amsmiz we guessedto be somewhere about 2000, of which a very con-siderable proportion are -Jews. Here, as elsewhere,these children of Israel are terribly overcrowded.Greatly to our surprise, however, we found amongtliein a certain measure of cleanliness, not only in theirpersons, but in their houses and streets. Of coursethe cleanliness was purely comparative. With thisbetter sanitation there was a corresponding improve-ment in the healtli of tlic ^Fellah. Physical deformi-ties were more rare, and without exception the Jewsof Amsmiz were by far the finest developed men andwomen we met anywhere in Morocco. In other re-spects too they attracted our favourable notice; forthey had a manly and independent air about themsufiiciently rare in these lands, and seemed to be onvery g

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