The New Student's Reference Work/Atlas (mountain range)

Atlas, the great mountain system of northwestern Africa, stretching from Cape Nun in Morocco to Cape Bon in Tunis, a distance of about 1,400 miles. It is a very irregular mass of mountains running in various directions. It reaches its greatest height (about 13,000 feet) 27 miles southeast of the city of Morocco, and in the peaks of Bibawan and Tagherain. The heights approach the sea and form the promontories jutting out into the Atlantic. The slopes of the north, west and south are covered with vast forests of pine, oak, cork, white poplar, etc. Copper, iron, lead and antimony are found abundantly, but have not yet been mined to any great extent.