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before the Geographical Society, May 27,1867. 17 
gal and the Niger, an expedition was sent out by Colonel Faid- 
herbe, in 1863, to traverse the distance between Medine and the 
important town of Segou, which had been visited by our own 
renowned traveller Mungo Park, sixty years previously. The 
mission was most ably and successfully carried out by Lieu- 
tenant E, Madge and Dr. Quintin of the French navy. Coun- 
tries recently desolated by semi-religious wars carried on 
Mussulman chiefs were traversed with great danger, and the 
positions of the route carefully laid down; the road taken being 
a détour to the north, after crossing the Senegal, by Diangounté, 
to Yamina, on the Niger, and thence by canoe to Segou. By 
this journey Lieutenant Madge has filled up a void in all maps 
of the region of the Upper Senegal, and corrected the positions 
of many places as previously laid down by Mungo Park and 
others; but the accuracy of our English traveller in owe most 
imp ortant points is cheerfully acknowledged by his accom- 
plished French successor, especially, for instance, in the posi- 
tion of Yamina, which Mungo Park fixed at 13° 15) and Lieu- 
tenant Madge found to be 13° 17’ N. lat. The expedition re- 
turned to the mouth of the Senegal in June, 1866, and the 
French Geographical Society in the present year has rewarded 
the courageous leader with one of its gold medals. 
Asia.—Whilst, with the exception of the probable settle- 
ment of the north end of Lake Nyassa by the last Jomeey 8 of 
wn y' 
At the head of the labors which have elucidated the com- 
sot geography of this quarter - the oe , I place fhe 
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so popular 
thier, it was left for Colonel Yule vastly to pb our soln 
ance with the amount of information possessed by our one 
Am. Jour. Sc.—Szconn Serins, Vou. XLV, No. 133.—Jan., 1868. 
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