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North - mountain labyrinth that extends through thirty parallel to the coast of the Arctic Ocean! South - still the same mountains - sometimes alone, sometimes interconnected chains. West again mountains that stand out of the sky; and at the foot stretch their wide plains.
Turning now to look to the east! It does not see any mountain! As far as the eye can see and thousands of miles later - no mountain! That same dark stripe above the plane is just the rocky edge of the new plane - a higher level.
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What a pleasure for us to look at the pleasant valley, which stretches eastward from the foot of the mountain! What a contrast with the desert plateau! It is covered with light green carpet, dotted with flowers that shine like colorful gems! A cotton trees * 6, * 7 Melilla, evergreen oaks and willows interwoven twigs in nice shady groves that seem to invite us to rest. Let us go down.
We reached the plateau, but the valley is still far below us - at least one thousand feet * 8 below; However nose of rock hanging over the valley, we can see a whole along several miles * 9. It is smooth as a plateau above it: when you look from above, one can capture part of the plateau, sunken into the ground to find the life-giving forces, not reaching the higher area.
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