. In the desert, the hinterland of Algiers. Tibesti groups in the east, the Ahaggar andTademait in the centre, and the Adrar in the west,attract a rainfall and encourage hopes of great oases of the central desert at Tuat, Tidikelt,and throughout the Gourara valley are rich in water,and capable, probably, of considerable extensionSeveral artesian wells have already been sunk there are numbers of other spots where villagesand a restricted fertility already exist, and these it isexpected may be enlarged and their number added is, in fact, in the artesian process tha
. In the desert, the hinterland of Algiers. Tibesti groups in the east, the Ahaggar andTademait in the centre, and the Adrar in the west,attract a rainfall and encourage hopes of great oases of the central desert at Tuat, Tidikelt,and throughout the Gourara valley are rich in water,and capable, probably, of considerable extensionSeveral artesian wells have already been sunk there are numbers of other spots where villagesand a restricted fertility already exist, and these it isexpected may be enlarged and their number added is, in fact, in the artesian process that the optimistssee a hope of the Sahara undergoing in time such achange as will fit it to be included in a scheme ofcivilised organisation. A settled population may,through it, be increased, the trade of the old caravanroutes may be revived, travelling may become safeand comparatively easy, a trans-Saharan railway maylink the Sudan with the north, the control of theGovernment over the predatory tribes may becomemore tangible and
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