. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. DRY-LAND ARBORICULTURE IX ANCIENT AFRICA. 9 place to place in search of pasturage for their sheep and goats. Ex- cept on the coast and at a few points near the mountains along the northern and western borders of the district there arc no large towns and hardly any permanent villages. The desolation is almost every- where complete. Vet during the third to the seventh century of the Christian era this whole dis- trict (fig. i he seacoast west- ward into what i< now eastern A 1 ge ria, was thickly dotted w i t h thriving villages and f a r
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. DRY-LAND ARBORICULTURE IX ANCIENT AFRICA. 9 place to place in search of pasturage for their sheep and goats. Ex- cept on the coast and at a few points near the mountains along the northern and western borders of the district there arc no large towns and hardly any permanent villages. The desolation is almost every- where complete. Vet during the third to the seventh century of the Christian era this whole dis- trict (fig. i he seacoast west- ward into what i< now eastern A 1 ge ria, was thickly dotted w i t h thriving villages and f a r in s . In an urea not exceed- ing 20,000 square miles —1.), 0 0 0 within the bound- aries of modern Tunis and per- il a ps 5,000 i ii Algeria—t h e r e were at least a dozen cities of 10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants. A network of splen- did paved roads, such ;is the Ro- mans k n e w - o well how to build, connected these cities with each other and with those f the seacoast. While in the height of it> prosperity, that part of the region belonging to what we now call "The northeastern portion of the lightly shaded area, m least near the Beacoast, is not typical f the dry-land arboricultnral region, the yearly rainfall at Snsa averaging inches, in the southeastern portion (below Gabes) it is unlikely that the dry-land orchards extended as far from the const as is Indicated on the map. In the absence of exact data for correction, however, it seems best to follow the limits of the region as traced by Bourde (Rapporl Bur les cultures Fruitieres, Tunis, 1899).. ~~*\ff£G/OH OFDRY-LMP/IR80RI- ' CULTURE IN ANCIENT TIMES \MOD£ftH ORY-LAND OLIVE • ORCHARDS Fig. t. Map of ; showing the probahle extent of the dry-land arboricultural region in ancient times and the area now occupied by dry-land olive orchards. (After Bourde.) 26017 125 os. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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