X JULY, 1899 No. 7 



The 



National Geographic 



Magazine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 



Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



ELY, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army ; WJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 ■imcricau Ethnology ; Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 '. Hart Merriam, Biologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture ; David J. Hill, 

 slant Secretary of State ; Chareks H. Allen, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; 

 Wilms L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau ; H. S. PriTCHETT, Su- 

 perintendent of the U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey ; Marcus Baker, U. S. 

 Geological Survey ; O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 U. S. Treasury Department; Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Author 

 pf'fqva, the Garden of the East," etc.; Carl Louise Gar- 

 rison, Principal of Phelps School, Washington, D. C. 



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, "Washington, D. C. 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE NICARAGUA CANAL ROUTE. 



With original maps and illustrations. C. WILLARD HAYES. 233 



NICARAGUA AND THE ISTHMIAN ROUTES. A. P. DAVIS. 247 



With illustrations. 



THE WELLMAN POLAR EXPEDITION. J. HOWARD GORE. 267 



THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY ; ITS PRESENT WORK. 



E. D. PRESTON. 268 



EXPLORATIONS IN ALASKA. 269 



COROLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES. 271 



The Mission of the Diana, p. 273; Geographic Literature: Jackson's "A Thousand 

 Day9 in the Arctic,'' etc., p. 274; Geographic Miscellanea, p. 277. 



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