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during the first period of the French occupation. Round it are grouped the "New" Mosque, with its town clock, the principal market, the Great Mosque, the Catholic cathedral, the Governor's palace, the Hôtel de Ville, and most other
Fig. 103. — Algiers in 1886.
public buildings. Here also converge all the busiest thoroughfares, and from this point radiate nearly all the highways for the outskirts and the inland towns.
In the city the population has grouped itself in separate zones according to its origin. The French occupy all the new quarters, while the Neapolitans,
