96 Geographical Notices. 



cially. The land wbich I discovered and surveyed during this 

 cruise is the most northern land known on the globe. I have 

 traced it to 82° 40' and have planted the flag of the Union (' witk 

 not a single star erased') upon it." 



METEOROLOGICAL RECORD AT KANAGAWA, JAPAN, 1860. 

 In the absence of nauch trustworthy information in respect to 

 the meteorology of Japan, the following table, recently commu- 

 nicated to us in the Japan Herald, vol. i, No. 2, i 

 The Register was kept by Rev. Mr. Hepburn, 

 the American Presbyterian Board. We understand that he 

 continues to keep a like record. It is to be regretted that a 

 barometric register does not accompany the other observations. 



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SCHLAGINTWEIT'S INDIA AND HIGH ASIA, VOL. XL 



The second volume of the text and the second number of the 

 atlas of the truly imperial work on India by the Brothers 

 Schlagintweit has recently been given to the public. The text 

 is devoted to the Hypsometry of the regions visited. It con- 

 tains in all the heights of 3,495 points, of which 1,615 belong to 

 India, and 1,880 to High Asia, the area over which they are 

 distributed extending from the southern part of Ceylon to the 

 environs of Kashgar in Turkistan (from 6° to 39° N. lat.) and 

 from the Eastern boundaries of Assam to Sindh (from 97" ^ 

 70^° long. E. Gr.). The authors state that of the 3,495 points 

 above mentioned there are 1113 for which they had no other 



