Show reclaiming the great sahara desert A railway beaw between algeria and senegal via timbuctoo appears a startling project yet such buch was the scheme suggested on thursday night in a lec lecture tuie at the salle saile des conferences byal by M paul Sole illet lilet who maintained that valuable merchandise from Ame america ilca d destined for and eastern europe N ado adopt P VV that route and thus rest oreto the e nean aflean the importance Un b a necessary necess necessary art ari 10 lo the influence of tild races ba M Soleil Sole illet leb started on ah dh le expedition from algiers in iii D december 1872 hl h intention being to reach st ijoyi senegal via vla 00 but owing to the opposition of an insurgent chief hei he was unable h afe to penetrate further than la 1000 0 o 0 or kilometres kilo metres from aikler algiers the latter iatter t t portion of or the route before been trod by European europeans S bo declares it ita a mistake to Imagine he sahara bahara a long continuous tract of sand he found along alduk a great part pard of the way a fertile soil producing both an african and a euial european e an flora including cereals which iare lare re grown in gardens but taut have lave to contend with a dry climate at one point however lie he and his four foun companions had to dismount to make a track with their animals and at another the plain was covered by stones of different colors one tint succeeding another he speaks sanguinely of the intelligence telli gence of theBe the berr bera and aud their capability of being civilized the clergy he describes as possessing great power powen they care the sole judges of questions of morality and excommunication is th he 9 severest punishment known while the most heinous of fience is marriage with foreign women women a prejudice he be attributes to a jewish tribe converted to mohammedanism which he thinks probably settle I 1 there before the christian era em lio ito found na no dangerous anim animal hl in the sahara the ostrich and the gazelle being the largest of the fauna his expedition was ill timed on account of an insurrection against the emperor of morocco having broken out but he ho proposes to make a second attempt to reach senegal and he suggests that french consuls or residents should be stationed along the rout as foci of commerce and civilization for the inhabitants are sedentary and have adopted division of labor and arid though slavery exists this must be regarded as an initial step gohd van vau cement it may way be bel added that arr italian expedition got up by private individuals d divi duals auais kas has has arr arrived at tunis for ti a of ascertaining the feasibility sibl lity of turning the waters of the mediterranean into inlo the fad T tunisian U sahara sabira a project advocated by ba M de lese lessep before defor the fhe fre ere french ademy ell elu aca pf af r sciences 31 last st du autumn the qu question ea tion tiou ng i 1 tt is a whether the lakes takes or schod Owera were wera connected luf iff classical times limes bya by a canal with the G u if of gabes from which ihl ah they are now separated abyah by an isthmus awen tyone ty one kilometres kilo metres bidad broad the ex will take the levels leveis of these lakes and ascertain anai anal js practicable it be s greab great advantage 10 lo to ning delthe ath e province of to trade the bey of bf tunis has bas grea great t courtesy to arid placed an acourt es courtat at their service it may be remembered that hil hii ax expedition edition assisted by be lench bench government gavern ment menk SP i V 4 abou fo to across ross africa atlea obliquely from colpo onro ongo fo ro kubja paris cor landon 1 l mes |