Climatic and Physiographic Notes on French Guinea

IN earlier journeys in the French Sudan I traveled along the Niger bend; and in the course of a recent journey I have seen the colonies of Senegal, French Guinea, Upper Niger, and the Ivory Coast. So this article is not altogether an arm-chair study. It could, however, not have been made without the fine contoured map of French Guinea on a scale of I :200,000 recently become available.1 Here for the first time is represented the topography of the massif known as Fouta Djallon, and truly revealing is the picture. Not only does it suggest an unsuspected structure to which all unconsciously the life of the colony is adjusted, but it sets up a train of speculation on that perennially interesting topic-climatic change; for French Guinea, well watered as it is today, yet lies not so far from the southern margin of the Sahara

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