A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . CONSTANTINE TO EL KANTARA day are some of the finest in the world, those offamed Pompeii, in my opinion, fading into insig-nificance by comparison. We reached Timgad about three in the after-noon and drew up before the Hotel de Timgad,which is owned by the proprietor of the Hoteldes Etrangers, at Batna. Between these twohotels a motor omnibus service is maintained,which affords the tourist a capital opportunity tovisit the ruins. The run is accomplished by thiscar in an hour, and judging from the size of themachine and the ro
A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . CONSTANTINE TO EL KANTARA day are some of the finest in the world, those offamed Pompeii, in my opinion, fading into insig-nificance by comparison. We reached Timgad about three in the after-noon and drew up before the Hotel de Timgad,which is owned by the proprietor of the Hoteldes Etrangers, at Batna. Between these twohotels a motor omnibus service is maintained,which affords the tourist a capital opportunity tovisit the ruins. The run is accomplished by thiscar in an hour, and judging from the size of themachine and the road on which it runs, I shouldsimply hate to be one of the occupants while itsmechanic is pushing it through on schedule time. Timgad, as Lambese, is being excavated byconvicts. I was fortunate in procuring some goodpictures of the vicinity, notwithstanding the factthat a drizzling rain was falling at the time. Theweather necessitated an exceptionally long ex-posure of the films. The town of Timgad is of great interest. Itwas founded by Trajan, about 100 a. d., and
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