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LAMBESSA.
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Lambessa.

The New Lambæsis (Nouvelle Lambèse), as Batna was at first officially called, cannot pretend to rival the spleadours of the old Lambæsis, the Tuzzut of the

Fig. 128. — Fum Ksantina.jpg

Berbers, which covered an area of several square miles, and whose remarkable ruins are still far from having been thoroughly explored. Here Léon Rénier