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ries, keeping, of course, close to water. 

 Often the sheep may travel 400 to 600 

 miles, and by knowing the character 

 and amount of the snow in the moun- 

 tains, the herder can follow a route 

 where water will be plentiful. 



GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 



THE following decisions were made 

 by the United States Board on 

 Geographic Names, February 6, 1901 : 



Ambrose ; the channel across Sandy 

 Hook Bar, New York Harbor, for- 

 merly known as East Harbor, was re- 

 named Ambrose Channel by an act 

 of Congress approved June 6, 1900. 

 In that act it is ''Provided, That the 

 so-called East Channel across Sandy 

 Hook Bar, New York Harbor, for 

 the improvement of which provision 

 was made by the river and harbor 

 act, approved March third, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-nine, shall here- 

 after be known as Ambrose Chan- 

 nel " (Statutes at Large, 56th Con- 

 gress, ist session, pp. 588 and 627). 

 The name Ambrose is here included 

 not as a decision of the Board, but 

 as a decision by Congress. 



Conaskonk ; point, Monmouth County, 

 New Jersey (not Conaskonck). 



Cove City ; township, Crawford County, 

 Arkansas (not Core). 



Garrett ; hill in Middletown, Monmouth 

 County, New Jersey (not Garret 

 nor Garrett's). 



Guttenberg ; post-ofhce and railroad 

 station, Clayton County, Iowa (not 

 Guttenburg). 



Kekurnoi ; cape near Cold Bay, Sheli- 

 kof Strait, Alaska (not Kahurnoi, 

 Nelupaki, nor Nukakalkak). 



Kessler ; mountain and triangulation 

 station near Fayetteville, Washing- 

 ton County, Arkansas (not Kestler). 



Klahini ; river tributary to Burroughs 

 Bay, Behm Canal, southeastern 

 Alaska (not Clahona nor Klaheena). 



Leechville ; post-office, Beaufort County, 

 North Carolina (not Leachville). 



Steele ; point, the easternmost point of 

 Hinchinbrook Island, Prince Wil- 

 liam Sound, Alaska (not Bentinck 

 nor Steel). 



Tuttle ; lake, Polk County, Wisconsin 

 (not Swahn), 



West Point ; United States Military 

 Academy, New York (not West- 

 point). 



CHARTING THE HARBORS OF 

 THE PHILIPPINES. 



Preliminary steps have been taken by 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 

 charting the harbors and coast of the 

 Philippine Islands. A sub-oflfice of the 

 Survey has been established at Manila, 

 in charge of G. R. Putnam, who has a 

 force of men collecting material to assist 

 in the work. In the early spring active 

 work will be commenced and pushed, so 

 that it is hoped that sufficient accurate 

 data will have been obtained by the fall 

 to enable the publication of charts of 

 the larger harbors among the islands. 

 There are no charts of the many minor 

 ports in the islands that serve as points 

 of distribution for the inter-island trade, 

 and these also must be charted. 



