Crossword-Solution: BATNA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They would have taken me, but I refused to go." "Where to?" "Batna, Biskra, _que sais-je_? Adelaide is restless as an enraged cat!" He sat down, and began greedily to eat his soup.

Our next resting-place was Batna, a small French town situated on the elevated ground--nearly four thousand feet above the level of the sea--between the Mediterranean and the Sahara.

There was a hard frost, and just before entering Batna we passed under an aqueduct from which hung down a fringe of enormous icicles.

The following day, on the still higher ground at the celebrated cedar forest, which forms an interesting excursion from Batna, we found deep snow.

What could have induced such a people to penetrate so far into the wilds of Africa? There is no evidence of the land ever having been more productive or more attractive than it is at present; and yet at Lambessa, a few miles from Batna, you find the ruins of a once great and magnificent Roman city, while even as far south as Biskra itself there are still to be seen relics of this great conquering nation of antiquity.