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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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A SLUICE-GATE IN THE CAMARGUE DRAINAGE SYSTEM 



There is an extensive system of deep drainage ditches throughout the more fertile dis- 

 tricts of the Camargue, and in the late winter and early spring the surplus rain water is 

 drained off to the sea. 



HELPING TO RESUSCITATE AGRICULTURE IN THE CAMARGUE 



The herder's days are numbered here, as in many other parts of the world, and the 

 pastoral life is giving way to the less romantic but more profitable occupation of agriculture. 

 This is a return to the old order of things, for in the days of ancient Rome this part of 

 Provincia Romana rivaled in fertility the delta of the Nile. 



