Scenery, Science And Art: Being Extracts From the Note-Book of a Geologist And Mining Engineer
Scenery, Science And Art: Being Extracts From the Note-Book of a Geologist And Mining Engineer
D T David Thomas Ansted
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PASSPORT SYSTEM. 237 able for their excellence, and unfit to compete with those of Elba and other known localities in the Mediterranean, it is unlikely that they will be much used. Manganese ore has been discovered, but is also unimportant. For local purposes there are beds of rock-salt, saline springs, gypsum, cement stones of various kinds, and building material. All these add greatly to the interest and value of the country, but they are not likely to be exported. On the whole, it appears th...at the province of Algiers pos- sesses a fair share of mineral wealth ; but there can, I think, be little doubt that its true riches exist in the soil. Its sources of inexhaustible wealth are not concealed, but are manifest at the surface. It would be well if the French people and their Government would turn their attention more to the permanent interests of the colony, encouraging legitimate immigration and the culture of the soil, and removing many unwise and mis- chievous obstructions to the internal development of the country that have hitherto been insisted on as part of the general policy of France.
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