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olives, figs, date-palms, vines, and other fruit-trees; 

 tobacco, maize, lucerne, &c. Waste lands are covered 

 with a high and dense scrub of prickly green bushes 



Fig. 77, Atlas Cedars— Algeria. 



forming the maquis, or with close thickets of dwarf 

 palms. 



On the lower slopes some prosperous forests of ever- 

 green oaks have been left. Cork oaks predominate 



