Northern, or the kingdom of Fez.  Central, or the kingdom of Morocco.  Eastern, or the Province of Tafilett.  Southern, or the province of Sous.  Some add to this latter, the Province of Draha.

Then, a great number of districts are enumerated as comprehended in these large and general divisions; but the true division of all Mussulman States is into tribes.  There is besides another, which more approaches to European government, viz, into kaidats, or jurisdictions.  The name of a district is usually that of its chief tribe, and mountains are denominated after the tribes that inhabit them.  There is, of course, a natural division, sometimes called a dividing into zones or specific regions, which has already been alluded to in enumerating the natural resources of Morocco, and which besides corresponds with the present political divisions.

I. The North of the Atlas:  coming first, the Rif, or mountainous region, which borders the Mediterranean from the river Moulwia to Tangier, comprising the districts of Hashbat west, and Gharet and Aklaia east.  Then the intermediate zone of plains and hills, which extends from the middle course of the Moulwia to Tangier on one coast, and to Mogador on the other.

II.  The Central Region, or the great chain of the Atlas.  The Deren [17] of the natives, from the frontiers of Algeria east to Cape Gheer, on the south-west.  This includes the various districts of the Gharb, Temsna, Beni Hasan, Shawia, Fez, Todla, Dukala, Shragno, Abda, Haha, Shedma, Khamna, Morocco, &c.

III.  South of the Atlas:  or quasi-Saharan region, comprising the various provinces and districts of Sous, Sidi Hisham, Wadnoun, Guezoula, Draha (Draa), Tafilett, and a large portion of the Sahara, south-east of the Atlas.

As to statistics of population I am inclined fully to admit the statement of Signor Balbi that, the term of African statistics ought to be rejected as absurd.  Count Hemo de Graeberg, who was a long time Consul at Tangier, and wrote a statistical and geographical account of the empire of Morocco, states the number of the inhabitants of the town of Mazagran to be two thousand.  Mr. Elton who resided there several months, assured me it does not contain more than one hundred.  Another gentleman who dwelt there says, three hundred.  This case is a fair sample of the style in which the statistics of population in Morocco are and have been calculated.

Before the occupation of Algeria by the French, all the cities were vulgarly calculated at double, or treble their amount of population.  This has also been the case even in India, where we could obtain, with care, tolerably correct statistics.  The prejudices of oriental and Africo-eastern people are wholly set against statistics, or numbering the population.  No mother knows the age of her own child.  It is ill-omened, if not an affront, to ask a man how many children he has; and to demand the amount of the population