. The story of Africa and its explorers. remark ofone of their number, that The conquest ofthe land has been achieved by first conqueringAvhat is under the land. With these encouraging results before them,the Parliamentary Committee began afresh 100 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. the surveys for the trans-Saharan routes were examined, but?wayexpiora- that proceeding from central Al-tioi^s. geria—that is to say, by way of Philippeville, Constantino, Biskra, Wargla, andAmguid—was unanimously selected as themost favourable. Amguid must therefore bethe central point in the line whenever it isb
. The story of Africa and its explorers. remark ofone of their number, that The conquest ofthe land has been achieved by first conqueringAvhat is under the land. With these encouraging results before them,the Parliamentary Committee began afresh 100 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. the surveys for the trans-Saharan routes were examined, but?wayexpiora- that proceeding from central Al-tioi^s. geria—that is to say, by way of Philippeville, Constantino, Biskra, Wargla, andAmguid—was unanimously selected as themost favourable. Amguid must therefore bethe central point in the line whenever it isbuilt. From this place it can be extended, as the trade of the country from finding its waydown the Niger to the English trading-posts,if only a branch extending from Senegalmeets that from the north. At present theSaharan railway does not extend farther thanthe oasis of ?3iskra, already a favourite winterhaunt of the invalids who crowd Algeria forsome months in the year. It is hoped thatbefore long it will be extended to Touggourt. DATE-PALMS IX THE ISLAIs^D OF DJERBA. (From a Photograph in the Paris-Tunis Collection.) circumstances may render advisable, to allparts of the Sahara. But though the fertile Soudan will neces-sarily supply the chief traffic to the Saharanline, it will not be alone dependent on theproduce of the country, for, leaving out ofaccount Bornu, part of which at least extendsinto the Sahara, Damergou, near the Aumountains, in the pass of which ColonelFlatters was killed, contains some excellentland. Under the influence of irrigation thistract Avould equally respond to the sinking ofartesian wells, since almost no portion of thatregion is naturally sterile. By this line theFrench hope to tap the Soudan, and to divert and Wargla. The latter place, 220 milessouth of Biskra, affords sufficient freightto render the line moderately profitable,since it is fed by the products of the oasesalready described. For the present, Warglais the most southern outpost of t
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