IN ALGERIA AND TUNIS ALGIERS, ORAN, TLEMÇEN, BOUGIE, ETC. BY SIR R. LAMBERT PLAYFAIR, K.C.M.G. AUTHOR OF HANDBOOK (MURRAY'S) TO THE MEDITERRANEAN;' 'THE SCOURGE OF CHRISTENDOM,' ETC.. FOURTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED. WITH MAPS AND PLANS LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1891. The Right of Translation is reserved. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION It is not yet three years since the third edition of this Handbook was published, and already the immense extension of railway communication in the Colony has rendered it out of date. The line from Algiers to Tunis has been completed; a new one has opened out Biskra, which is now within twelve hours of the sea. This cannot fail to become one of the most important winter stations in the basin of the Mediterranean. Another conducts to Tebessa and its wonderful Roman ruins; Bougie, the starting-point for the Chabet Pass, can be reached in one day from Algiers; the line to Tlemçen, the African Granada, is almost entirely finished; and the last one opened, from Mostaganem to Tiaret, renders easily accessible a country full of archæological interest. The Handbook has been thoroughly revised, and matters of an ephemeral nature, including information relating to hotels, etc., have been relegated to an Index and Directory. ALGIERS, October 1889. R. L. P. In most instances throughout this volume the metric system has been adopted in preference to the English one. The following tables may be found useful by those whose minds have not yet become habituated to this more rational standard : 5 centimètres = 2 inches. 4 30 110 2 3 19 99 11 The sign after the names of Roman remains indicates places always interesting to the archæologist, but in a less degree to the ordinary traveller. |