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oi expense of a chronometer before he started on his journey ; he had 
sextant, thermometer, barometer, &c., and ‘ Griffin’s Facies Nav- 
feation, but the great essential was and still is wantin 
The spot to which Dr. Knoblicher thus succeeded in penetrating | is 
several miles higher up the stream than the extreme point reached, i 
1841, by the second Turco-Egyptian Expedition sent by the late Mo. 
hamme Ali Pasha to discover the source of the Nile,—in which Ex- 
pedition M. d’Arnaud and M. Werne took part; and the explicit infor- 
mation now furnished by him respecting the upper course of the river 
I may add, that the course of the river above 4° N. lat., as described 
by Dr. Knoblicher, corresponds very closely with that which is marked 
in the map of ‘The Upper Nile according to Dr. Beke’s Hypothesis,’ 
published in the Edingburgh New Philosophical Journal for October, 
1848, vol. xlv, No. 90, in illustration of a paper, ‘On the Sources of 
the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon,’ contained in the same number 
of that ahi am, &., Cuar.es BEke. 
February 18 
5. Survey of the Louisiade Archipelago = the een ioe 
of New Guinea; by the late Capt. O. Srantey, R.N., with Notes o 
- aie History of the same, by Mr. adie ie he Nasuratis 
—(Proc. of Geog. Soc., Atheneum, eas 4.)—After 
a oe ibis of apite to the memory of the lam hie Mr. Ken- 
nedy, murdered, as our readers know, by the natives oi his explor- 
ation of the Cape York Peninsula—Capt. tanley (destined so soon to 
barrier reef, which, teeta mien the ists apt wid be continuous, - 
and perm mitted an easy passage to the open s Although, however, 
barrier ceased on avon ae sistas ‘Capt. Stanley found on 
edie New Guinea, in order to obtain an astronomical position 
om whence to carry out the survey, that a ridge of shoal water, 7 
bean oe om the mast-head, stretched out about six miles from the 
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