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 An eminence in the Beni-Yenni territory, towards the south-west, is occupied by Beni-Yahsen (the Arab Beni-el Hassen), the largest Kabyle village in the whole of the Jurjura country. Here are four mosques and some sixty workshops, where arms and jewellery are manufactured.

In the valleys of the Sebau and its tributaries, the European settlers have already founded several villages, such as Azuzga, Freha, Mekla, and Temda, which _

follow from north-east to south-west along the line of the future route between Algiers and Bougie. But at present the trade of this district is centred in the modern town of Tizi-Uzu (the Arab Fuj-el-Guendul), which lies at an altitude of 850 feet to the west of an extensive plain where the Wed Sebau and Wed Aissi unite their turbulent waters. Few places in Algeria have developed more rapidly than this administrative capital of Kabylia, whose market is frequented by thousands of natives from the surrounding districts. In the hills to the north-west