18 Address of Sir R. I. Murchison 
tive map of Asia, such as it was when explored by those earlier 
travellers, and when it was ruled over by the different branches 
pe, is truly 
tonishing. In those days, and even as late as the sixteenth 
the King of Spain. Even our own Queen Elizabeth was so 
thians.” It was then (1558) that J enkinson, our English trav- 
eller, made the journey from Astrachan to Bokhara, passing 
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and now so fallen through tyranny and misgovernment, No 
a great end, is the bringing into real use, for the first time: in 
Dee the River Jaxartes “ the ancients (now called the Sy 
___ Darla), and navigating it with steamers from its mouth on h 
Sea of Aral for many hundred miles into Turkistan and Ko- 
a by the erection of forts, Russia 
