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 partly excavated in the cliff, numerous cisterns, and some fine mosques, besides the statues, busts, urns, and inscriptions preserved in the museum.

The town occupies a ravine between the two ridges of Bu-Jala and Jebel Addun, east and west. The main thoroughfare, running along the old bed of a stream, terminates seawards in an elevated terrace, whence a view is commanded of the esplanade and of the inner and outer harbour, the former covering an area of 50 acres, and enclosed by jetties, the latter much more extensive, but insufficiently

protected from the surf. Before the construction of the present harbour works the shipping was obliged to seek refuge at Stora, the old "Genoese port," which lies 2 miles north-west of Philippeville, at a point sufficiently protected from the west and north winds.

A somewhat analogous position is occupied by Collo, the Chaullu of the Romans, and Kullu of the natives, which is also sheltered by a headland from the west and