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The central food market of Damascus provides with the supply of a million city, but offers the service and size of a traditional medium town. Some conflictual interests prevent a real adaptation and give real troubles in urban life.

The migrations in Syria are investigated with the 1960 and 1970 census. Three main tendancies are observed : — are international emigration of young male adults. This movemen': affects the various categories of population. It is related woth political contingencies ; — a marked sedentarization affecting nomadic groups. This tendency was enforced with the abrogation in 1958 of the particular tribal legislation ; — some internal movements, strong growing since 1965, with a bug surplus for the south province where is the capital.

The californian Westlands have been reclaimed lately by the mean of important ussets and engineerings. The hydraulic reclamation, partly supported by the federal State, ought induce a transfer from great to little farms, according to the 1902 act. In spite of the evolution from ranching to perennial agriculture, the agri-businessemen delay or divert the application of this law.

The author discriminates the Bourbonnais-sends from the deposits of the river Allier. He proposes a new interpretation for these two formations in the North part of the Grande Limagne. He explains the plateau de Randan as a step of quaternary terraces dislocated by recent tectonic deformations.