History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . THE PROVINCES. 153 the maritime towns, and in the other towards the desert and theposts established at the foot of Mount Atlas. The Romans, like the French, had much difficulty in penetratingthe mountainous central region of Kabylia; but by occupying all. MOSAIC OF IGILGILIS ().2 the entrances to the mountain chain, they forced the Kabyles toacknowledge, in order to exist, the supremacy ofthose who held the valleys, finally gaining a footholdeven in the mountains themselves. The same policy
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . THE PROVINCES. 153 the maritime towns, and in the other towards the desert and theposts established at the foot of Mount Atlas. The Romans, like the French, had much difficulty in penetratingthe mountainous central region of Kabylia; but by occupying all. MOSAIC OF IGILGILIS ().2 the entrances to the mountain chain, they forced the Kabyles toacknowledge, in order to exist, the supremacy ofthose who held the valleys, finally gaining a footholdeven in the mountains themselves. The same policywas followed, but with different means, in respectto the Sahara. The Romans had closed by defencesthe gorges of the Aurasius to check the incursionsof the nomads ; they had even crossed the high pla-teau and descended into the desert, where they hadseized some of the oases. We have been as far as Laghouat only
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