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LA PLACE VALLÉE, CONSTANTINE Photograph by Neurdein Freres

ON THE BANK OF THE ROUMMEL

The mysterious under-world of Constantine interests us more than the city itself. Let us find ourselves where the unhappy slave would certainly have found himself had he refused to decorate the palace walls—in the bottom of the terrible ravine. We are more than five hundred feet below the level of the city streets. We are, if you

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