Crossword-Solution: SETIF 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This wooded Numidia, with its flowing brooks, its fields where the cattle graze, differs in the highest degree from the Numidia towards Setif--a wide, desolate plain, where the stubble of the wheat-fields, the sandy _steppes_, roll away in monotonous undulations to the cloudy barrier of Mount Atlas which closes the horizon.

After going to Bona, Constantine, Biskara and Setif, I went to Bougie through the defiles of Chabet, by an excellent road through a large forest, which follows the sea at a height of six hundred feet above it, as far as that wonderful bay of Bougie, which is as beautiful as that of Naples, of Ajaccio, or of Douarnenez, which are the most lovely that I know.

The country known as Grand Kabylia, or Kabylia _par excellence_, is that part of Algeria forming the great square whose corners are Dellys, Aumale, Setif and Bougie.

Collo is an Italianized fishing village; Beni-Mançour, a flourishing small town to-day, but formerly a simple _bordj_ or halting-place on the main caravan route from east to west; and Setif, the _chef lieu_, contains a mixed population of 15,000, of which a quarter part are Europeans and 1,600 Jews.

The trade of the city with Biskarah is large in dried dates, and with Setif and other ports in wool; ostrich feathers, elephants’ tusks, and gold dust are seen in small quantities.