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been compelled to send a herd of his cattle to New So 
es to graze. +e 
An expedition in charge of Mr. Swinden to explore the region - 
to the west of Lake Torrens left Port Augusta in August, 1857 
but the notes we have of it are short and unsatisfactory, amo 
ing to little more than the bare mention of distances betwe 
one creek, pool, or spring, and another, and of the character‘ 
the water in each, whether brackish or fresh. The great num 
ber of such bodies of water, and their nearness to each oth 
have excited much interest respecting this region, and the re 
will doubtless be pleased to learn that a strongly equipped é 
dition is probably now on the ground, and that the vigorous 
prosecution of the instructions which Mr. B. Herschel! Babbage, 
its leader, received from the government in February, 1858, 
soon result in an accurate knowledge of this now unknown 
ritory. We may add that there are accompanying this expedt 
tion, not only a surveyor, but a chemist and a botanist. 
EIGHT OF THE HIMALAYAN PrAKks.—The survey, no 
progress in Caschmir and Thibet, under the direction of Col. 
S. Waugh, has lately determined the height of one of the peaks 
of Kara-Korum, and ascertained it to be 27,928 English f e 
more than 1000 feet above the Dhaulagiri, and therefore the thi 
in height of all the peaks in the world yet measured. oe 
The following measurements are given for the highest Him& 
layan peaks : . 
Mount Everest (7007 tS 29,002 English feet. 
Hintachindjuiga ....’. 2952 9% 28,156 oe 
“Korum >) i ee 27,928 ‘ 
Poenweenitt ss ee ee 26,826 a 
heclromialari..° 22 SSE eee Pe 23,946 
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bast of tables which they will find of great conveni 
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