{MN-1} _Fez_ also is a most large and plentiful Country, the chief City is called _Fez,_ divided into two parts; old _Fez_, containing about 80 thousand Households, the other 4000 pleasantly situated upon a River in the heart of _Barbary,_ part upon Hills, part upon Plains, full of people, and all sorts of Merchandize. The great Temple is called _Carucen_, in breadth seventeen Arches, in length 120, born up with 2500 white Marble Pillars: under the chief Arch, where the Tribunal is kept, hangeth a most huge Lamp, compassed with 110 lesser, under the other also hang great Lamps, and about some, are burning fifteen hundred lights, They say, they were all made of the Bells the _Arabians_ brought from _Spain._ It hath three Gates of notable heighth, Priests and Officers so many, that the Circuit of the Church, the Yard, and other Houses, is little less than a Mile and half in compass, there are in this City 200 Schools, 200 Inns, 400 Water-Mills, 600 Water-Conduits, 700 Temples and Oratories; but 50 of them most stately and richly furnished. Their _Alcazer_ or _Burse_ is Walled about, it hath twelve Gates, and fifteen Walks covered with Tents, to keep the Sun from the Merchants, and them that come there. The King's Palace, both for strength and beauty is excellent, and the Citizens have many great Privileges. Those two Countries of _Fez_ and _Morocco,_ are the best part of all _Barbary,_ abounding with People, Cattel, and all good Necessaries for Man's use. For the rest, as the _Larbs,_ or Mountainers, the Kingdoms of _Cocow, Algier, Tripoli, Tunis,_ and _AEgypt;_ there are many large Histories of them in divers Languages, especially that writ by that most excellent Statesman, _John de Leo,_ who afterwards turned Christian. {MN-2} The unknown Countries of _Guine_ and _Binn,_ this six and twenty years have been frequented with a few English Ships only to Trade, especially the River of _Senega,_ by Captain _Brimstead,_ Captain _Brockit,_ Mr. _Crump,_ and divers others. Also the great River of _Gambia,_ by Captain _Johnson,_ who is returned in thither again, in the Year 1626, with Mr. _William Grent,_ and thirteen or fourteen others, to stay in the Country, to discover some way to those rich Mines of _Gago_ or _Tumbatu,_ from whence is supposed the _Moors_ of _Barbary_ have their Gold, and the certainty of those supposed Descriptions and Relations of those interiour parts, which daily the more they are sought into, the more they are corrected: For surely, those interiour Parts of Africa, are little known to either _English, French,_ or _Dutch,_ though they use much the Coast; therefore we will make a little bold with the Observations of the _Portugals._ * * * * * {MN-1} _The description of_ Fez. {MN-2} _A brief description of the most unknown parts of_ Africa. * * * * * CHAP. XIX.