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LARAISH (El Araish) , a port in northern Morocco on the Atlantic coast
fair
condition , and it has ten forts, all supplied with old-fashioned guns. Traces of the Spanish occupation from 16101689 are to be seen in the towers whose names are given by Tissot as those of St Stephen, St James and that of the Jews , with the Castle of Our Lady of Europe, now the kasbah or citadel. The most remarkable feature of Laraish is its fine large market-place inside the town with a low colonnade in front of very small shops. The streets, though narrow and steep, are generally paved. Its chief
hair and skins, sheepskins, wool and fullers' earth. The wool goes chiefly to Marseilles. The annual value of the trade is from 400,000 to 500,000.In 178o all the Europeans in Laraish were expelled by Mohammed XVI., although in 1786 the monopoly of its trade had been granted to Holland, even its export of wheat. In 1787 the Moors were still building pirate vessels here, the timber for which came from the neighbouring forest of M'amora. Not far from the town are the remains of what is believed to be a Phoenician city, Shammish, mentioned by Idrisi
settlement
garden of the Hesperides, `Ariisi being the Arabic for " pleasure-gardens," and the " golden apples " perhaps the familiar
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