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NORTH-WEST AFRICA.

including Rebrval, Uled-Keddash, and Bois-SarréBois-Sarré. But Dellys or Deilis, the outport of the district, lies not at the mouth of the river, but more to the east, under a headland sheltering it from the north-west winds. It consists of one long street and a few lanes on the slope of a hill terminating at Dellys Point, where a breakwater,

Fig. 100. — Palestro and Gorges of the Isser.

intended to protect the roadstead from the north and east winds, has already been carried some 300 feet into the bay. A school of arts and industries, one of the chief institutions of the department of Algiers, has been founded in Dellys for the benefit of the surrounding Kabyle population. On the exposed coast, running