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Title: Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: McClure, William Kidston
Subjects: Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912
Publisher: London : Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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,dependent for replenishment upon the percolation of therainfall in Tripolitania. M. de Mathuisieulx writes : Ledebit des ouadi des hautes terres est trop minime pourquon lui attribue lalimentation de cette nappe. Peut-etre faut-il y voir une infiltration tres lointaine, provenantdu Soudan meme, par la pente de strates (impermeables etsous-jacentes) vers la mer. En tout cas, les pluies tombeessur le Nefoussa et le Gariana, cest-a-dire sur letroitebordure septentrionale qui penche vers le Nord, ne peuventfournir une pareille quantite deau souterraine. Thetheory of a distant origin for the subsoil waters seems tohave many adherents, and the supposition that there isnot only a subterranean deposit, but a subterranean flow,has recently received striking confirmation. Sinking awell on the outskirts of Tripoli, not far from the BreadMarket, the Italians came upon an underground streamwhich gives a considerable and constant flow. The pre-sence of subterranean streams had long been suspected;
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THE FUTURE OF THE NEW COLONIES 295 and it is only reasonable to anticipate further discoveriesof the same kind. The suggestion is sometimes made that the expense ofraising the water to the surface will be so great as to renderan economic development of the country impossible, evenassuming its potential fertility. This seems hardly likely,for though the general attitude of Nature is determinedlyhostile to human enterprise, the wind that blows acrossthe plains is on the side of man. It is confidently antici-pated, by those who are acquainted with the conditions,that by means of wind-wheels the task of bringing thewater to the surface may be easily and cheaply accomplished.Wind is a feature of the Tripolitan climate, and in the dryseason the breeze off the sea blows with an almost clock-work regularity during the afternoon hours, except whenits cooling breath is replaced by the furnace blast of theghibli, which will atone for its extreme unpleasantness ifit helps to bring water to the th

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