La géographie internationale . exceptionto terre trouver ci-dessous que l'altitude à l'exception près des côtes. En dépit de la basse altitude moyenne de l'Afrique du Nord, qu'il contient, le theAtlas un important massif. C'est parallèle à l'mostprojecting partie de la côte nord, la hausse la plus prononcée dans sa moitié, l'ouest, à une altitude de 14 000 pieds et plus. En raison de son directionit n'aide pas à former toute la péninsule et bien marqué comme celui de Italyon l'autre côté de la Méditerranée, bien que comme il plonge en dessous de l'OTASE l'est qu'elle forme, pour l'Afrique, une place aussi inhabituelle de l'angle t

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The international geography . exceptionto find land below that elevation except close to the coasts. In spite of the lower average elevation of North Africa, it contains theAtlas, the one important mountain range. It runs parallel to the mostprojecting part of the northern coast, rising in its most pronounced, western, half to a height of 14, 000 feet and more. Owing to its directionit does not help to form any well-marked peninsula such as that of Italyon the opposite side of the Mediterranean, though as it plunges below the seato the east it forms, for Africa, an unusually prominent angle of the coast.To the south the Atlas falls suddenly, and near its eastern end there is adepressed area actually below sea-level ; the range is therefore quiteunconnected with any of the other highlands of North Africa. Theseoccur chiefly in three lines with broad expanses of lower country betweenthem. One runs nearly north and south along the western shore of theRed Sea; a second runs from north-west to south-east across the very. y iP 9 M> Africa 891 centre of northern Africa ; while the third—wider but somewhat lowerthan the two first—forms a strip of plateau parallel to the northern shoreof the Gulf of Guinea. The intermediate areas probably nowhere rise toa height of 2, 000 feet except in isolated groups of peaks. In the southern half of Africa the greater part of the plateau rises to anaverage elevation of little less than 4, 000 feet. One noteworthy break inthis uniform high level occurs in the western half, where, on either sideof the Equator, there extends a vast circular basin, bounded on all sidesby higher ground, which seems to represent the bed of an ancient inlandsea. Abreast of this to the east a band of very high ground, continuouswith the eastern line of northern Africa, runs from north to south, attainingits greatest average elevation in Abyssinia, and forming the most importanthighlands of all Africa. It is marked, towards the south, by the presenceof a number

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