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in Lowei- Lao8, iu 1888. He studied the language and written works 

 hitherto almost unknown. He surveyed over 600 miles of roads and 

 rivers, and made several corrections on the maps. He found the climate 

 suitable for the growth of Eui'opean vegetables, and believes that 

 coffee, cocoa, pepper and even the vine, would do there well, the climate 

 being drier than Lower Cochin- China. 



Father Guesdon has prepared a general map of Cambodia, also a 

 Dictionary of French and Cambodian. 



M. Pavie, who has for three years been exploring the north of Siam 

 and the Laotian provinces, with the object of finding the easiest route 

 from these regions to the sea, has discovered a route, that caa be tra- 

 versed in nine days — four in boat and five on horseback, thus connecting 

 the commercial centres in Siam with the French possessions in Tonquin. 



Several interesting works have been published regarding these 

 French possessions in Further Asia — among them — Mens. J. L. de Lanes- 

 san's " L' Indo-Chine Frmicaise," which gives a useful general account 

 of the French possessions in Cochin-China, Cambodia, Annam and 

 Tonquin, and more particularly of the expedition sent for rectifying 

 the boundary between Anuam and Siam. Mons. J. Silvestre's " L' 

 Empire d' Annam et le peiiple Annamite," with map; Mons. Paul Brandas' 

 "ie haut MeJcong ou le Laos oiivert," with new maps. 



A new map of Fi-ench Cochin China, prepared by Commandant Al. 

 Koch, has been published on the scale of 1 : 400,000, or about 5'5 geogra- 

 phical miles to the inch. 



Burma and Siam. Mr. Holt S. Hallett has published under the title 

 oi " A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States," an account of 

 his journeys in Burmah, Siam, and the Shan States, in search of the best 

 railway route between Burmah, China, and Siam. The work is well illus- 

 trated with maps of Southern China, and Indo-China, showing the 

 railway lines projected by English and French engineers between 

 Burma and China and from the Shan States to Tonquin. Mr. Hallett 

 has contributed a good deal that is new to the geography of this little 

 known region and to our information regarding it. 



The Asiatic Quarterly B.evieio contains papers by Major- General 

 A. R. Macmahon on Karenni and the Red Karens, and by Mr. J. G. 

 Scott on the British Shan States. 



Upper Burma and S. E. Frontier. The Proceedings of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society contain a very valuable and interesting paper by Colonel 

 R. G. Woodthorpe, R. E., C. B., on his exploration on the Chindwin 

 River in Upper Burma, in which he gives an account of the whole tract 

 beetween Manipur, the Kubo valley, and down the Chindwin River to 

 Alon. The paper is illustrated by a map. 



