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certain regions that appeared to him eminently worthy of at- 

 tention. The most important results obtained by him have 

 reference to the earlier inhabitants of the country, for whose 

 history he collected a large amount of material. A note- 

 worthy fact in South American geography has been the as- 

 cent of Mount Cotopaxi by a German savant (Dr. Reiss), who 

 was enabled to make the eifort under specially favorable cir- 

 cumstances. 



As regards Asia, considerable attention has been drawn to 

 expeditions from both the United States and Great Britain, 

 each of which has sent out agents in the form of Palestine 

 Exploration Societies, the special region to be investigated by 

 each being amicably determined. It is hoped that before 

 long some important information may be secured that will re- 

 pay all the labor and outlay in this service. 



Dr. Schleimann announces interesting discoveries at what 

 he considers the seat of ancient Troy, as developed in the 

 penetration through various strata, and which contain re- 

 mains extending from the most modern time down to that 

 of the inhabitants of the country in the time of Priam. 



The most popularly appreciated geographical fact of the 

 year is in connection with Africa consisting in the penetra- 

 tion into its wilds by Mr. Stanley, the agent of the New York 

 Herald, in a successful effort to discover the long-lost Dr. 

 Livingstone. The results of this expedition have been to 

 give Mr. Stanley a deserved reputation, which he shares witli 

 the Herald, on account of which the enterprise was conduct- 

 ed, and which was induced to contribute so large a sum of 

 money toward this apparently irrelevant object. The stim- 

 ulus caused by Mr. Stanley's success has led to the departure 

 of an expedition under Sir Bartle Frere, having for its object 

 the suppression of the East African slave-trade ; and the dis- 

 patch of an expedition with similar objects, on the part of 

 Egypt, under General Purdy ; also, in the fitting out of two 

 expeditions for the investigation of Western Africa by way 

 of the Congo one of them under British auspices, Lieuten- 

 ant Grandy in command, already in the field ; and the other, 

 German, being in an advanced stage of preparation for start- 

 ing. Other notes in regard to African discovery are furnished 

 by Dr. Schweinfurth, Gerhard Rohlfs, Mr. Edward Blyden, Sir 

 Samuel Baker, Carl Mauch, and others. 



