. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . e ground of this territory abounds with Roman ruins andfragments of the settlements of the Third Roman ancient name was Calceus Herculis. The oasis of El-Kantara comprises three villages, ordacheras; Khrekar, Khbour el Abbas, and Dahraouia, containing more than 1)0,000 palm-trees. The populationamounts to about 3,000 inhabitants. Ilic railway line, before reaching this oasis, passes 8UC A DISTRICTS EAST OF ALGIERS. l:\ I cessively under a tunnel of 160 metres, another of 20 metres,and the third of 100 metres in length. The passage th
. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . e ground of this territory abounds with Roman ruins andfragments of the settlements of the Third Roman ancient name was Calceus Herculis. The oasis of El-Kantara comprises three villages, ordacheras; Khrekar, Khbour el Abbas, and Dahraouia, containing more than 1)0,000 palm-trees. The populationamounts to about 3,000 inhabitants. Ilic railway line, before reaching this oasis, passes 8UC A DISTRICTS EAST OF ALGIERS. l:\ I cessively under a tunnel of 160 metres, another of 20 metres,and the third of 100 metres in length. The passage through the wild and remarkable gorge ofKantara out into the mighty Sahara is thus described by arecent traveller : I know not where so startling a contrastcan be seen as during the fewmoments that carry you throughthe mighty gorge of El Kantara and over the bridge into theboundless Sahara. One minute you are in the dark shadowof towering mountains and cliffs, and passing over a rushingriver, palms, oleanders, and green fruit-trees clothing either. El Kantae \. bank, in the uext you are out in the blazing sun and endlessdesert. To the eye the rift in the mountain chain, thatseparates with giddy heights and cliffs the desert from thehills and valleys, the pastures and forests left behind, appearsthe only possible entrance. The moment the pass is chareda desolate landscape lies before you. bul amongsi the burningred and orange rocks that are piled above, and the endlesswilderness of sand and slones that stretches far away to thehorizon, the eye rests on the belt of rich, green, close-packedpalms that marks the exquisite oasis of El Kantara and its 232 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. hidden villages, whose gardens hang over the steep banks ofthe river as it emerges from the gorge. Right and left of thechaos of crags and precipices, that guard each side of thecleft, the range strikes out east and west, and the steep sidesare completely furrowed with ravines, as if a herculeanplough had turned t
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