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while engaged in a survey of the coast between Godthaab 

 and Frederikshaab, undertook a journey into the interior, 

 commencing the arduous task on July 14, and having for 

 their objective point some mountain-peaks about forty-five 

 miles inland. Their baggage and instruments were trans- 

 ported on three small sledges with great difficulty. After 

 two days' journey their progress was much retarded by the 

 loose snow covering the surface of the ice, which was so 

 full of holes and crevasses that for safety the travellers were 

 obliged to attach themselves to each other by a rope, as in 

 Alpine climbing. Several rapid streams, abounding in fish, 

 were met in the valleys, and were crossed with difficulty. 

 Foggy weather and snow-storms hindered their advance, but 

 on the 24th the foot of the mountains was reached, the as- 

 cent being delayed by stormy weather till the 31st, when, 

 just as the party was about returning, the weather cleared 

 off, and they succeeded in attaining the summit of the peak 

 at a height of 5000 feet above the sea-level. No signs of 

 bare ground were visible, but as far as the eye could reach 

 ice-sheets and glaciers covered the country. On the 5th of 

 August the explorers regained the coast after an absence of 

 twenty-three days. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



Lieutenant L. N. 13. Wyse, of the French Navy, has made 

 a report to the Societe Internationale da Canal Interocea- 

 nique of the results of the explorations made by himself and 

 his associates. Patting aside routes which he considers im- 

 practicable, Lieutenant Wyse urges that a choice must final- 

 ly be made between the following projects: 



1. A canal, with locks and a tunnel, by way of the Atrato 

 and Napipi rivers, from the Gulf of Uraba to the Bay of 

 Chiri-Chiri. 



2. A canal, with locks and a tunnel, from the Gulf of Ura- 

 ba to the Gulf of San Miguel, by way of the Atrato, Coquir- 

 ri, and Tuyra rivers. 



3. A canal, without locks, but with a tunnel, from the Bay 

 of San Bias to the mouth of the Bayano River, by way of 

 Nercalegua and Mamoni. 



4. From Acanti to the Gulf of San Miguel, by way of Tia- 

 ti,Tupisa, and Chucunaque, with a tunnel, but without locks. 



