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buildings, more gracefully decorated, and surrounded with more luxuriant vegetation. The Bey's usual residence is at Marsa, and near his palace are grouped the
Fig. 55. — La Goletta.

houses of the French minister, the English consul, and other dignitaries. In summer the beach at Marsa is crowded with bathers from Tunis.