Vol. XI APRIL, 1900 No. 4 



THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 



MAGAZINE 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



THE ANGLO-VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE 



With map and illustrations MARCUS BAKER 129 



KOREA— THE HERMIT NATION 



"With illustrations Commander H. V7EBSTER, U. S. N. 145 



AN ASSUMED INCONSTANCY IN THE LEVEL OF LAKE NICARAGUA; 

 A QUESTION OF THE PERMANENCY OF THE NICARAGUA 

 CANAL C. -WILL ARD HAYES 156 



THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION 161 



INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AND ITS POSSIBILITIES 162 



HELPING NAVIGATION 162 



RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENTS 163 



WHERE EXPLORATION IS NEEDED 163 



W^ORK IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC 164 



Geographic Liteiature: Grosvenor's "Contemporary History of the V/oild," p. 165 



Geographic Miscellanea, p. 167 ; W^heat Acreage of the United States in 1899; 

 Effect of the Cuban Census; Storage W^orks on the Gila River, Arizona; 

 Yale School of Forestry ; Dredging for Gold at Cape Nome ; The Bubonic 

 Plague 



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