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Europeans could not have been. They obtained by formal treaty, 

 in which they were assisted by the well-known native African 

 episcopal clergymen, Mr. Crowther and his son, the facilities and 

 promise of toleration and protection which they sought for their 

 constituents ; and it must be added that this successful tour of nine 

 months' duration on the continent of Africa cost them less than 

 100/., which forms a striking contrast with our expensive expe- 

 ditions. 



Asia. 



Syria. — From our excellent associate, Sir Woodbine Parish, we 

 have received the account of Sir Eyre Coote's journey from Bussora 

 to Aleppo, which has been strongly recommended to be printed in 

 our Journal, by no less an authority on this subject than our asso- 

 ciate, Mr. Cyril Graham. 



From Dr. J. Wortabet, m.d., we have also received an original MS. 

 on the Hermon, and the physical features of Syria and Palestine. 



Persia. — Our associate, Captain Claude Clark, has furnished us 

 with a valuable paper on routes from Tehran to Herat, then to 

 Shahraad, and Tehran to Bushir. 



Caucasus. — Baron de Bode, the well known traveller, has given 

 us a lively sketch of Hilly Daghestan, and the Lesghi tribes of the 

 eastern chain of the Caucasus. 



Kuria Muria. — A lively account of the Kuria Muria islands, by 

 Dr. Buist, has been published in our Proceedings. 



Hindustan. — In the past year we have had only two papers on the 

 sulDJect of the greatest^of our dependencies, but these have been on 

 a highly interesting portion of them — the mountain valley of Kash- 

 mir, the country of the Shawl, and the celebrated retreat of the 

 Mogul sovereigns of Delhi from the sultry heats of the summers 

 of the plain. These communications were in illustration of a beau- 

 tiful MS. map of the Trigonometrical Survey of Kashmir, submitted 

 to the Council by the India Office, and exhibited at one of our meetings. 

 It represents the physical features of the country, and has been con- 

 structed, with great labour and care, under the direction of our 

 medallist Colonel A. S. Waugh, by our associate. Captain Montgomerie 

 of the Bengal Engineers, and is now being lithographed by Mr. 

 J. Walker, Hydrographer to the Hon. E. I. Company, and will 

 shortly be published. Here, at an average height of G500 feet 

 above the sea-level, we have a population, by race Hindu, occuj)ying 

 a country which in physical geography, animal and vegetable pro- 



