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remarkable. The peak is so white that I could think it nothing 
but snow, and I was not a little surprised to hear from 
learned men in Europe that it was thought to be anything else.” 
Dr. Baikie’s Niger expedition has now been two years in pro- 
gress without attaining any noteworthy results, The expedition 
lost its first steamboat on the rocks not far from Rabba. Mean- 
while all the world had learned through Dr. Barth’s fifth vol- 
ume, that the great western branch of the Niger, raped to 
Timbuktoo, offered great difficulties to navigation. to be 
regretted that the other branch, the Benue, had not Sidhe (sia 
chosen for exploration. It is now proposed to direct attention 
to it. Baron Krafft, under the name of Hadj Skander, has set 
; out to visit Timbuktoo, Extracts from his diars are promised 
in Peterman 
The rtoel director of Dr. Livingstone’s expedition, Cap- 
tain Bedingfield, has unexpectedly se to England on ac- 
count of a disagreement with Dr. Livin 
A journey from Natal to the river oemas is pres by 
two of the missionaries. The lower and middle parts of this 
stream, which is probably after the Zambesi, the most sina 
of East Africa, are as yet quite unknown. 
Onparza’s New Map or Borrvia.—Under the authority of 
the government of Bolivia, a new map of that country. has re- 
cently been engraved and printed at the office of Messrs. J. H. 
Coes & Co., New York. 
based upon the explorations and surveys of Col. Ondarza, 
Commandant t Main, and Major Camacho, the former of whom 
gaged in the work for seventeen years, 
lately es supervising in our country this publication of hig 
athe chart (which is issued in four sheets), is almost exclu- 
sively limited to the territory of Bolivia itself, but the surveys 
have extended toward the south into the Argentine confedera- 
tion. Marginal maps are given of the La Plata and Amazon, 
from the sci ae ener of Page and Herndon, and plans of 
the cities La Paz and Sucre. The ng sl ag _pidit be of the 
principal rivers are tated at numerous poi sy 
in which are found gold, silver, copper, or Ns eer saitete 
carefully indica 
e are informed that in the course of the surveys the eleva- 
tions of more than three thousand points have been barometri- 
eally hgprrerccses —y of them by repeated observations. One 
of the determ ns affords the means of a comparison be- 
tween an jacardalentat leveling extending between 13,000 and 
mountains are restored by these observations to the is ° 
inally ascribed to them but very much reduced by Sel og 
