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 hill the Mzabites have erected a Ksar, as a fortified depôt for the alfa, cereals, wool, and other produce of the plateau. North-west of this market a bluff 3,300 foct high is occupied by the entrenched camp of Boghar, or Bughar, that is, the Cave, constructed in 1839 by Abd-el-Kader to command the gorges of the Shelif, and reduced by the French in 1841. From the citadel the view stretches across the southern steppes separated by the Jebel Amur from the boundless eolitudes of the Sahara.

Medea, the Midia or Lemdia of the Arabs, occupies in the Shelif basin one of

the highest points of the highlands skirting the northern side of the Mitija plain. It stands at an altitude of over 3,000 feet, near the southern foot of Mount Nador (3,470 feet), whence are visible the crests of all the surrounding heights from the Warsenis to the Jurjura highlands. Medea, former capital of the Titteri district,