94 e Geographical Notices, 
The main detachment passed through the Puerto del Dado and 
the smaller through the wide pass, (Railroad pass,) between the 
Chiricahui mountains and Mount Graham; the two onlin on 
the Rio Sauz, about fifteen miles below the Ci ienega. Exam 
tions made eastward, across the Peloncillo (Sugar Loaf) ei 
tains, resulted in the discovery of an excellent pass for a railroad 
in a more direct line than that of the route of 1854. From this 
range of mountains an easterly course was pursued, and con- 
nexion made with the former survey about fifteen miles west of 
sates where Colonel Cooke’s emigrant road diverges to the 
sou 
AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION.—The Atheneum for March 13, 
1858, Senos a letter from Capt, Freeling, Surveyor General at 
Adelaide, in respect to the explorations undertaken in the central 
part of Australia to determine whether a navigable inland sea 
existed there, as has been supposed. No water was found on 
which a boat would float. “I was away,” says Capt. Freeling 
“more than two monte and during that time must have trav- 
elled 1,000 miles, and I verily believe that there is no other 
country in the world where so much barren land exists in a sim- 
: it is really wonderful to see the masses of stone 
which lie on the hills va opin as ona newly Macadamized 
, as well as the abs of grass in places where the stones 
are Not so thickly cad: “put all this barrenness may easily 
accounted for by the fact that but nee rain falls to promote 
fertility. Occasionally as in March of this year, an extraor- 
rain- bee Laghai een the eps which are for years 
together dry, pour down an amazing volume of water, flooding 
the lands in cee neighborhood and eventually discharging 
themselves over a vast slightly hollowed pin, which then has 
all the appearance of a large inland sea. Test it, however, as I 
did by walking three miles into it, and oe then see its true 
, and are able to state positively that the summer heats 
will not have continued long before the whole is evaporated.” 
NEW DIVISIONS oF THE REPUBLIC or New pares atte 
a Law * iy, Wy 1867, for the old sae on into Provi 
