FROM TUNIS TO LE KEF, 125½ M., railway, two trains daily in 8¼–9 hrs.
(fares 22 fr. 60, 17 fr. 15, 12 fr. 10 c.); also local trains from
Tunis to Pont-du-Fahs and Gaffour.—FROM TUNIS TO KALAÂ-DJERDA, 146 M.,
two trains daily in 10–11 hrs. (fares 26 fr. 30 c., 20 fr., 14 fr. 10
c.); also a local train between Gaffour and Kalaâ-Djerda.—Railway
Restaurants at Gaffour and Les Salines only.
_Tunis_, see p. 329. Our line diverges, to the S.E., near Bab Alleoua
(p. 339), from the Algeria and Bizerta line (RR. 51, 54) and skirts Lake
Bahira below the _Zaouïa Sidi Bel-Hassen_ (p. 339).
2½ M. _Djebel-Djelloud_, close to the _Jebel Djelloud_ (138 ft.) is the
junction for Susa (R. 57) and has railway-works, large quarries, and
lime-kilns.
The train now runs to the N.E. to (5 M.) _Bir-Kassa_.
BRANCH LINE TO LA LAVERIE (17½ M. from Tunis, in ca. 1¾ hr.; 2 fr. 80,
2 fr. 10, 1 fr. 40 c.; many stops). Beyond (6 M. from Tunis)
_Bordj-Gourbel_ the _Oued Miliane_ (p. 363) is crossed. On the right
bank is the fertile, olive-clad _Plaine du Mornag_. 13 M.
_Haut-Mornag-Crétéville_, at the S. base of _Jebel Bou-Kornin_ (p.
363). Crétéville lies on the road from Tunis to Grombalia (p. 364),
near the grand _Khanguet el-Hadjadj_ (‘pilgrim-pass’), a deep ravine
between Jebel Bou-Kornin and Jebel Ressas (see below), through which
formerly passed the traffic between the interior and the harbours on
the E. seaboard. In this defile, now clothed with vineyards, lay the
little town of _Neferis_, which was destroyed by the Romans at the
same time as Carthage. 17½ M. (from Tunis) _La Laverie_ (377 ft.) is a
village of Italian miners, at the W. foot of _Jebel Ressas_ (2608 ft.;
‘lead-mountain’), where lead-mines were already worked in Roman times.