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A Visit to Tafilet: in view of the Atlas Mountains and the city of Morocco, 1895. Creator: L. A. S..

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A Visit to Tafilet: in view of the Atlas Mountains and the city of Morocco, 1895. '...forty miles away there rose, as it were, straight from the hazy plain, that most beautiful range of mountains, the Atlas. In colour they appeared to be a rich cobalt blue, which faded away near the summits of the peaks, where glistening snow appeared white against a sky as blue as the lower slopes of the mountains. It has been my fortune to see many of the finest views that the world is supposed to boast - that from the mosque of Mehemet Ali at Cairo; the Golden Horn; Fujiyama in Japan; but with the exception of one or two in the mountains of the Yemen I know of none to compare with this. It is a scene as exhaustive as it is immense. All Nature's handiwork seems represented there. The plain, the river, the mountains, the city, the semi-tropical palm-trees, and the contrasting snow - an immensity of landscape, seen from a position such that the whole is presented at once, as it were a picture, but one which no mortal hand could paint. By W. B. Harris, F.R.G.S.' From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A09_175

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11,1Mo (686,5Ko) / 14,2cm x 19,6cm / 1681 x 2310 (300dpi)

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travel Morocco arts mountain mountains mountain range book British geography location century Britain newspapers press literature Atlas Mountains B&W North Africa tourist attraction 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Harris 19th-century The Illustrated London News Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains Tafilalt Tafilet Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil Vaucorbeil Maurice Romberg de Maurice Romberg Romberg de Vaucorbeil Maurice Romberg Maurice Walter Burton Harris Walter Burton L. A. S. LAS S. L. A.