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17. De Mathuisieulx 1905,81-82; Barth 1857,51-63; also pers. obs.
18. Pers. obs. This is of considerable importance to the study of the
limes Tripolitanus road.
19. Trousset 1974,26; Brogan 1980,45-52.
20. Vita Finzi. 1969,7-9; Kanter 1967,80-81.
21. Vita-Finzi 1969,7-9;. Franchetti 1914,155-88; de Mathuisieulx 1904,
60-64; Kanter 1967,80; Polservice 1980, A82-84.
22. Vita-Finzi 1969,9.
23. Herodotus II, 10-12, cf Vita-Finzi 1969,9.
24. Despois and Raynal 1967,252; Clarke 1960,52; Trousset 1974,18.
25. Hey 1962,435-49; Vita-Finzi 1969,7-12.
26. Vita-Finzi and Brogan 1965,65-71, on the wadi Megenin floods which
still carry volumes of silt 60 km. across the Gefara to Tripoli;
Vita-Finzi 1969,391, described cisterns in the wadi Lebda excavated
by the Italians 50 years ago and now reburied under 3m. of alluvium.
27. Richardson 1848,26.
28. IRT p 203; but cf. Vita-Finzi 1965,65-71; Brogan 1965a, 47;
Louis 1975,18-22; Tunisia 1: 200,000 series; »is 1: 50,000 series
for extensive areas of ancient settlement.
29. Rebuffat 1969,190-92, described the Gefara as "once fertile".
The extensive modern irrigation schemes, based on pumped artesian
water give a somewhat false impression of the area's potential.
This irrigation is seriously depleting groundwater reserves, Allan
1969,6; Bronson 1982.
30. De Mathuisieulx 1912,196-200; Franchi 1912; Kanter 1967,77-78;
Beechey and Beechey 1828,33-112.
31. Despois 1964,68-72; Kanter 1967,80-81; Louis 1975,17-21.
32. Lyon 1821,37; Barth 1857,90-103; Nachtigal 1974,39-41;
Lecoy de la Marche 1894; Hilaire 1901; Toussaint 1906; 1907;
Donau 1909; de Mathuisieulx 1912 47-68.
33. See above, note 20.
34. Ward-Perkins and Goodchild 1949,17-20; Vita-Fintzi 1969,41-44;
Barker 1982,2-8; Barker et al 1983; Barker and Jones 1981,14-16;
1982,21-31.
35. Despois 1964,37-40.
36. Despois 1964,37-40; Trousset 1974,16. Chott Djerid is 110 by
170 km; Chott Fedjedj is 90 km east to west.
37. Trousset 1978,164-73; 1982a, 45-59.
38. The British outflanked the Mareth line by forcing a way out of the
Dahar through the Tebaga corridor, which was inadequately protected.
British wartime maps held in SOAS, notably 1: 200,000 series sheet 22,
indicate that this was considered the only practicable route - Chott
Fedjedj is marked "treacherous after rain" and Gebel Tebaga "believed
impassable".
39. On the Nefzaoua, Carton 1914/1915; Moreau 1947.13-21; Despois 1964,428-
31, Poncet 1963,273-91; Sarel-Sternberg 1963,123-33. For the Djerid,
see Gendre 1908,504-17; Guides Bleus 1967,289-96; Trousset 1976,21-
33; 1982a, 45-59.
40. Kanter 1967,81-82.
41. Barth 1857,125-30, described a surprising amount of vegetation on the
Hamada after rare spring rains.
42. Brogan 1965b, 57; Kanter 1967,82-83; Rebuffat 1967,56-61.
43. Kanter 1967,83. For a variety of information and views on the Syrtic
coastal sectors see, Beechey and Beechey 1828,113-208; Cerrata 1933;
Holmboe 1936,95-176; Goodchild 1952d, 155-72; Brogan 1975a, 49-58;
Rebuffat 1982c, 188-99.
44. Strabo XVII, 3,20; Tab. Peut, seg vii, 4.