Walks in Algiers

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Excerpt from Walks in Algiers: And Its Surroundings Many books have been written about Algeria, but none, so far as I know, in the English language which profess to be handbooks for the use of the traveller to Algiers and its neighbourhood, with the exception of Murray's "Guide, " and this, embracing as it does a very large area, has naturally not a great deal of space to devote to one city, or even one province. To this work, to M. Piesse's excellent "Itinéraire, " to a particularly well-arranged French guide by M. Édouard Dalles, and to the various authors whose works are quoted in the course of the following pages, I am indebted for much valuable information. That I have exhaustively treated all the matters of interest with which Algiers abounds I do not profess. For the antiquarian, for the archæologist, for the historian, for the naturalist, the artist, and the mere lover of the picturesque, it has endless treasures yet unrecorded, but I can, in sincerity, only wish for others as much real pleasure as I have myself derived from walks in and about Algiers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.