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Show Vast Waste Desert. The great Sahara desert covers the major part of northern Africa, consisting consist-ing of 3,500,000 square miles a arid region as large as the whole of Eu- ' rope. Prom 100 feet below sea level it rises in one instance to 8,000 Jeet above, and some of its elevations are covered with snow for three months of the year. Most of it, however, Is a dry, sandy waste, dotted here and there with an oasis where "drink" may be secured. The winds are all very hot and dry, while rain Is almost unknown. |