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NORTH-EAST AFRICA. 



nearly all the urban populations are concentrated, with the exception of the towns 

 that have sprung up round the mountain strongholds, or places of pilgrimage. The 

 inhabited zone — that is, the voina-dega, or " wine region," between the degas and 



Fig. 47. — iNTiiUMEDiATE Abyssinian Plateaux and Valleys. 

 Scale 1 : 3,500.0nn 



S EN H 1^ 



L . of breei^wir 



Kwiilia. 



Voina-dega. Dega. 



— _^^^^ 60 Miles. 



kwallas — lies mainly at a height of from 6,000 to 8,000 feet. At these elevations 

 the mean temperature corresponds to that of the Mediterranean sea-coast, with this 

 difference, that the changes of season are much less noticeable. As the plateaux 



