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about eight metres above the ground, leads to a first room that leads to two lanes of forty metres in length, at different levels, leading to a large room in which there are two columns of stalagmites. A conduit leads to a third room containing concretions and eccentrics. At this level, progress is blocked by a narrow conduit.
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Eastern staircase reversed. A gallery of thirty metres, covered in concentric circles and ovals,
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Access to the cave of Bou Touil is the entrance is from a fairly broad which leads to narrow corridors on the left side. It leads to a room with
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Ghanguet Kef at Jebel El Damous which peaked at about 202 metres. The latter is formed by land dating from the
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