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will repay special investigation. Quite recently an 

 English traveller, Mr. Cowper, found not far from the 

 Tripoli coast miles of magnificent ruins and much to- 

 correct on our maps. If only the obstructiveness of the 

 Turkish officials could be overcome, there is a rich 

 liarvest for any one who will go to work with patience 

 and intelligence. Even the interior of Morocco, and 

 especially the Atlas mountains, are but little known. 

 The French, in both Tunis and Algeria, are extending our 

 knowledge southward. 



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All the powers who have taken part in the scramble for 

 Africa are doing much to acquire a knowledge of their 

 territories. Germany especially deserves praise for the 

 persistent zeal with which she has carried out the explora- 

 tion of her immense territories in East and West Africa. 

 The men she sends out are unusually well qualified for the 

 work, capable not simply of making a running survey as 

 they proceed and taking notes on country and people, but 

 of rendering a substantial account of the geology, the 

 fauna, the flora, and the economic conditions. Both in 

 the French and British spheres good work is also being 

 done, and the map of Africa is being gradually filled up. 

 But what we especially want now are men of the type of 

 Dr. J. W. Gregory, whose book on the Great Kift valley is 

 one of the most valuable contributions to African 

 geography ever made. If men of this stamp would settle 

 down in regions like that of Mount Kuwenzori or Lake 

 Eudolf or the region about lakes Bangweolo and Tangan- 

 yika, or in the Atlas or in many other regions that could 

 be named, the gains to scientific geography, as well as 

 to the economic interests of Africa, would be great. An 

 example of work of this kind is seen in the discoveries 

 made by a young biologist trained in geographical 

 observation, Mr. Moore, on Lake Tanganyika. There he 



