Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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fromthe citadel of Cairo. One of these is now 450 feet high, and thelength of each side of its square base is about 750 feet, or nearlyone seventh of a mile. The Sjyhinx shown in the same picture is not far from Cairo.This curious monument, showing a mans head on a lions body, isnearly 200 feet long, and was mostly carved from a ledge. NORTHERN AFRTCA AND THE SAHARA DESERT. 91 77. Northern Africa and the Sahara Desert. The highland which includes the Atlas mountains con-sists of long and narrow plateaus with border ranges.These plateaus, like other high plains between ranges,receive but little rainfall andare suitable only forpasture land. desert tribes are mostly wandering Arabs, or Bedouins,and Berbers. Although their skin is swarthy they belongto the white race. See picture of Bedouin on next page.Many Negroes also live in some portions of the greatdesert lying northward from lake Tchad. A few low mountainranges rise inthe des-ert. Rainoccasion-ally fallson theseranges asthe winds
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An Arab City near a Water Gap. The northern slopes of this highland receive rains fromthe westerly winds in winter. These slopes are fertileand produce cereals and fruits like those ofsouthern Europe. The slopes of the highlandwhich face inland are almost barren, becausethey are on the lee side of the mountains. Most of the people in the lands on the northof the Sahara desert have dark or swarthyskin, but they belong to the white race. The Algerian, or native of Algiers, shown in thepicture on this page, is a fine example of the northAfrican people. Small streams from the Atlas mountains flow intothe border of the desert, and even after they dwindleaway, their ground water supplies many wells thathave been sunk in that dry region. The waterfrom these wells is used for irrigating groves ofdate palms, — the chief food plants of that dis-trict. Thousands of wells have been sunk alongthe border of the desert south of the Atlas range. The desert of Sahara, though about as large as theUni

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