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and naked plain, and on the other, the strange " chess-board" of the interior with 



Fig. 40. — Chief Eoutes of Abysmnian Explokers. 

 Scale 1 : 3,000,000." 



59° L >. o"f breenwich 



Itineraries of Antoine d'Abbadie. 

 ^^____^^_-_i^— ^^^ 60 Miles- 



its irregular terrace-lands overtopped by jagged cliffs and cleft asunder by deep 

 gorges. 



