Geographic Notes 



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Scraggy; isletin Salisbury Sound, south- 

 eastern Alaska (not Samoilof). 



Shoals ; point, the southeastern point of 

 Kruzof Island, Sitka Sound, south- 

 eastern Alaska (not First, lyOw, 

 Nizmennia, Otmeloi, Outer Point 

 of Shoals, nor White's). 



Smoke; creek south of Buffalo, Erie 

 County, Pa. (not Smokes). 



South Gabouri; creek, Ste. Genevieve 

 County, Missouri (not South Fork 

 Gabor nor South Gabori ) . 



Turner; island between Big Koniuji and 

 Nagai Islands, Shumagin group, 

 Alaska (not Stiernfeldj. 



Wapsipinicon; river in eastern Iowa 

 (not Wabes-pinicon Wapsie nor 

 Wapsiepinnecon ) . 



West Point; city, militia district, and 

 post-office, Troup County, Georgia 

 (not Westpoint). 



West Point; district, post-office, and 

 town. King William County, Vir- 

 ginia (not Westpoint). 



Wosnesenski; island off south shore of 

 Alaska Peninsula and west of Unga 

 Island, Shumagin group, Alaska 

 (not Crested, Peregrebnoi, Unat- 

 kuyuk, Vozoychenski, Vossnesen- 

 sk}^, nor Wossnessenski). 



Yucaipe; creek and valley, San Ber- 

 nardino County, California (not 

 Yucaipa ) . 



GERMANY IN CENTRAL AMERICA 



THE rapid increase of German com- 

 mercial interests in Central Amer- 

 ica has recently led Germany to appoint 

 her first salaried consul to Central Amer- 

 ica. The consul has been accredited to 

 Nicaragua, as the probable construction 

 of the canal across the Isthmus will 

 make it the most important of Central 

 American countries. 



The trade between Germany and Cen- 

 tral America annually reaches- from 

 $7,140,000 to $11,900,000. German 

 companies practically control the entire 

 shipping of the coast, and $59,500,000 



of German capital is invested there in 

 real estate, industrial enterprises, and in 

 banking houses. German farms and 

 plantations cover more than 742,000 

 acres, on which are planted 20,000,000 

 coffee trees. Much of the trade of Cen- 

 tral America goes abroad instead of 

 coming to the United States, owing to 

 the fact that American houses do not 

 emplo)^ in their establishments persons 

 speaking Spanish, and refuse to give 

 credit. 



A SUBMARINE ARCTIC BOAT 



A UNIQUE submarine boat is now 

 being built at Wilhelmshaven, 

 Germany, designed not for war, but for 

 the search for the North Pole. Herr 

 Anschiitz-Kampfe, of Munich, the in- 

 ventor, recently described his plans at 

 a meeting of the Vienna Geographical 

 Society. 



The boat will be capable of descend- 

 ing to a depth of 160 feet, and of swim- 

 ming at that distance from the surface, 

 and can remain fifteen hours under 

 water. The vessel is in the form of an 

 ellipsoid of rotation, the major axis be- 

 ing 70 feet and the breadth 20 feet. Its 

 cubical contents will allow^ sufficient air 

 for five men for fifteen hours, the car- 

 bonic acid gas being removed by combi- 

 nation wdth caustic soda. The boat is 

 kept from rising bj^ vertical screws of 

 five-horse power, and is propelled by 

 horizontal screws of forty-horse power. 

 A petroleum motor supplies the neces- 

 sary power. 



When ready for the start the boat will 

 be towed to the edge of the ice near 

 Spitzbergen, about 600 miles from the 

 Pole. The inventor's argument for the 

 rest of the journey is as follows : The 

 polar ice, on the average, reaches to a 

 depth of 16 to 20 feet, but when packed 

 it may reach to a depth of 80 feet ( land 

 ice in the form of icebergs, which ex- 

 tend several hundred feet below water, 

 ma}'-, he thinks, be disregarded in this 



