Four Months in Algeria: With a Visit to Carthage |
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... nearly with the new streets , and like them terminating at the Bab - el - Oued and Bab - Azoun . This last circum- stance was proved by the discovery of a Roman cemetery in each place ; and as it is well known that the ancients never ...
... nearly with the new streets , and like them terminating at the Bab - el - Oued and Bab - Azoun . This last circum- stance was proved by the discovery of a Roman cemetery in each place ; and as it is well known that the ancients never ...
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... nearly four hundred feet . The whole of this space lies within the Moorish walls , which still remain on the two upper sides of the triangle . One of them , that to the south - east , is still pierced by an ancient gateway ; but the ...
... nearly four hundred feet . The whole of this space lies within the Moorish walls , which still remain on the two upper sides of the triangle . One of them , that to the south - east , is still pierced by an ancient gateway ; but the ...
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... nearly westward for nine or ten miles , having an elevation which varies from six hundred to more than a thousand feet . It terminates at Rous - el - Knathar ( the Cape of the Ruins ) , and through- out its whole extent approaches very ...
... nearly westward for nine or ten miles , having an elevation which varies from six hundred to more than a thousand feet . It terminates at Rous - el - Knathar ( the Cape of the Ruins ) , and through- out its whole extent approaches very ...
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... nearly three hours of very fatiguing riding to advance little more than six miles . At last I arrived at Rous - el - Knathar , and looked about for some ancient ruins which were said to exist in the neighbourhood . CAPE OF THE RUINS ...
... nearly three hours of very fatiguing riding to advance little more than six miles . At last I arrived at Rous - el - Knathar , and looked about for some ancient ruins which were said to exist in the neighbourhood . CAPE OF THE RUINS ...
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... nearly the same feats . This was a man almost as black as a negro , but with the European features and soft hair . After he had , however , exhibited his appetite for red hot iron and cactus leaves , he treated the company to a yet more ...
... nearly the same feats . This was a man almost as black as a negro , but with the European features and soft hair . After he had , however , exhibited his appetite for red hot iron and cactus leaves , he treated the company to a yet more ...
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Abd-el-Kader Africa Algeria Algiers ancient animal appeared Arabs army arrived Arzew Atlas Aurès Batna Blidah Bona Boudouaou Bougie brought built camels camp Cape caravanserai Carthage character Cheliff Cherchell chief cisterns coast commandant Constantine course cultivation descends distance eight elevation Emperor European existed extremely feet Fonduck fortification four francs French Government ground Guelma harbour hills horses houses immediate neighbourhood inscription Isser Jemappes Kabyle Kabyle language L'Arbâ labour land latter limestone lion Magaria Maison Carrée marabout Maskara Mazagran Mechouar Médéah Metidja miles military Moorish Morocco mosque Mostaganem mountains mules native nearly night occupied officer Oran passed Philippeville plain plateau population probably province remains river road Roman route ruins Sahel Sebaou Sebkah seemed side Sidi soil soldiers spahi Spaniards steamer stone tion Tizi-Ouzou Tlemçen told tomb town tribe Tunis valley village walls whole wild
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