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Title: Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas Cook Ltd
Subjects: Algeria -- Guidebooks Tunisia -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : T. Cook & Son (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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surrounded by a crenelated wall, withbastions and square towers, the walls serving for shops andstores, somewhat after the manner of the souks at Tunis, butno manufactory of native work is seen. Several gates giveaccess to the old town, on the summit of which is the Casbah, a spacious building in part occupied by the colonelcommanding the troops. A large room contains some armour,guns, antique vases, and mosaics, and from the tower there isa unique view over land and sea, Permission to visit it isreadily granted on application at the guard-house. The modern town is increasing daily in prosperity, and isalready the second most important town of the Regency.Old walls have been removed, boulevards and new streets havebeen created, in which are found banks, consulates of allnations, first and second-class hotels, churches and synagogues,post and te egraph offices. Various public buildings havebeen erected, including a Palais de Justice, The Frenchmilitary station is outside the town. 365
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366 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. The new port, constructed at the same time as the ports ofTunis and Sfax, between 1894 and 1899, is managed by ajoint stock company under the title of Compagnie des Portsde Tunis, Sousse, and Sfax. The remains of the ancientharbour and Roman breakwater may still be seen betweenRas el-Bordj and the Quarantine Fort. The new port affords facilities for shipping and exportingthe rich products of the fertile plains of the central region ofTunisia, growing vast quantities of cereals, olives, and fruit,including almonds, apricots, pomegranates, and oranges. Theanimals of the Sahel are another source of wealth, num-bering, as they do, 16,000 cattle, 19,000 camels, 20,000goats, 120,000 sheep, and a fair proportion of horses, mulesand donkeys. Extensive factories for the manufacture of oil and soap areestablished near the harbour, as well as an entrepot for allkinds of merchandise, called Les Magasins Generaux du CentreTimisien. The Museum, in the Place du Musee—open

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