Tagat, Mountain

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Tagat, a Mountain two Leagues to the Eastward of Fez, Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name in Africk. It extends to the River Bunacer about two Leagues. All the foreside of the Mountain that looks towards Fez is covered with Vines, but the other side and the top is arable Ground. Every Winter some of the poor Inhabitants of Fez come to this Mountain to search for Treasures, which they pretend the Romans left there at their Departure. They say that they have Memoirs which shew the Places where these Treasures are, and nothing can dissuade them from this Opinion, which they have imbibed from Father to Son; so that they lose both their Time and their Goods in digging this Mountain. When any would undeceive them they say that these Treasures are enchanted, and that they'll never find them till the Enchantment is removed. They have wrought more than five hundred Years in this fruitless search. Marmol. of Afr.