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AFRICA 



interference; while the north and east of the continent 

 is dominated by the vast mass of Eurasia from which no 

 moisture comes. The relative lowness of most of northern 

 Africa, as contrasted with the high elevation of the 



Fig. 71. Physical Features of Africa. 



southern extremity, also permits much less condensation. 

 Owing "to those circumstances, in southern Africa the 

 place of the desert is taken by a vast extent of very dry> 

 but not desert, grass-land. 



