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Show .uii.it nun: iiiiuks, iiii: olij voi.fMia BL'i'iii:i) tu ih-i.n ih-i.n tiii: KAII.OUI.N. It has been thought, or, ratlur, tiDre correctly ereaklnir, only fondly hoped, by tbo learned men throughout Christendom, that among tbu rul.h slily throulclis of llie Knliculu tin ro ould some day bu found the mlrslug tluailcf, tlm lost hooks of I.uolld uud 1.1 vy nmoug olhcrr, ssyt tho Foitnlgblly ltevluW. IrdeeJ, lu&omoof tlm muru aiicleiit hooks uf travel 011 Moiocco It It expressly stated tho.1 many uf tho iiuuutcrlpis Hint wsrunmd Irom tho turning of the Alilxliilrlau library were lukuu ti Sevlllt, Ortuada, and Fez. In weighing there ilutomunuj I think It ihuuld bo remembered that thu Kilroutii wat foundod nt thu very least 100 years alter the II ro that was so disastrous to learning, and that tliisu manuicriplt would liavo had n lot of knocking about before they found a homo on tbu shelves lu thu rubtur rantnn lobars of tho Kuiroulu. 1 thluk Itpoitlbleon having Hovllle and Oranada the Moots may have brought with them to Morocco many of tbo precious volumes which atokuowu to have been tu thiso libraries, but wblch have now disappeared. Fur the last ilfly)euis It lias bleu tlicellort of uvir) Huroprau minister nuirtdltrd to Morocco to obtain sume Information regarding these treasures, but thu tultau bus always sturdily aicerted that there w eiu 110 books at all in the Kalroulu, or that they hal crumbled luto dust from ugeloug cen. lurlea ago. My Inquiries, though hardly lu n measure coaiuieiisurato with thu labor and amount of Hum exprndt'd, were certainly molo sue cessful. There can bu no two uplnlons us to tho pressure of a very large number uf ancient manuscripts In the Kalroulu library, and thtto volumes vol-umes a credltablu tblog for thu lsty aud Indolent Moors uru certainly thoolect or vory great tsru. The truttets ut the Kuiroulu have a regular stall of custodians ebon n trout tho unlvenily proletsorsand teachers, who aro tharged with thu kafekeiplng ot tho books, nud the cellars are uunuul ly lutinctcd, und thu hooks rriulicd when Iho lien ttlly uriits. 1 should say thai, bar accidents ol lire, lu the future, when the library Is thrown open, the manuscripts wlllbs fouud inn very fair ttato of priruivatlon. Upon auotbir point my Informants all agreed. They said lhat lu tbu library thvru aru quite a number of buoks written lu tirange, unkuown tongues. (Jeiierally, my giulul Tholba friends nsserted, they wire written lu Urtek, but in my (bowing them a book lu German Ihey wtre itnunlniouily of opinion that this wus thu language lu which thu volumet were written. Ho I uni forced to the conclutl jn that auy writing which Is not ArablulsUreekto thu Fuulei and Tholba ol Fez. |