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along the White Nile to the Monbutta country, where he lost his life. 

 A difficult journey was made by Prof. Blyden to Falaba, a little-known 

 country to the northeast of Sierra Leone. Marche and Compeigne 

 are now penetrating Equatorial Africa in the vicinity of the Ga- 

 boon. Besides these, it should be remembered that hundreds of 

 residents, living on the coast or having trading outposts in the interior, 

 annually contribute a rich fund to geographical knowledge by corre- 

 spondence or publications. Among these are Bushnell of the Gaboon, 

 who supplies valuable letters, Hansell of Khartoum, and Munzinger Bey, 

 one of the ablest geographers and most experienced travelers, and cor- 

 responding member at Mass wan of the American Geographical Society. 

 The effect of the Anglo-Ashantee War on our geographical knowledge 

 cannot yet be fairly estimated. 



In Australasia the eastern shore of New Guinea has been explored 

 by Captain Moresby, of the British Navy, in H. M. S. Basilisk, 

 who dispels many false impressions prevalent regarding that hitherto 

 little-known but highly-interesting island and its inhabitants. The 

 island has been crossed from Geelvinks Bay to McClure Gulf by Dr. 

 Meyer, who, like Moresby, but unlike Beccari, who has been explor- 

 ing there, gives a favorable account of the island and its people. For- 

 mosa has been traversed from north to south by Thompson and Max- 

 well, who found coal. It would be premature to speak of the geo- 

 graphical results of the Dutch Acheen expedition. 



Mr. Ernest Giles and Baron von Mtiller have been exploring 

 Central Australia, and gathering much accurate geographical informa- 

 tion. The telegraphic event of the year has been the construction of 

 a line across Australia, from Adelaide in the south to Port Darwin 

 on the north coast, a distance of 2,012 miles, which gives a continuous 

 line from Adelaide to Gibraltar, a distance of 12,462 miles, of which 

 9,146 are submarine, by which Australia has three weeks' earlier news 

 than by the mail-steamers. The last geographical intelligence from 

 Australia is the discovery of thousands of acres of the richest sugar- 

 growing land near Cardwell, in Northern Queensland, by a government 

 exploring expedition. Judge Daly's instructive address, of which we 

 have only given an outline, is well worth careful perusal, nor can its 

 fresh and valuable details fail to awaken a fresh and wider interest in 

 geographical science, or to give a renewed impetus to geographical 

 discovery, while showing that America and Americans are not behind 

 the age in geographical zeal and enterprise. 



In an appendix Ave also find some valuable information regarding 

 the United ^States Geological Survey of the Territories (Montana, 

 Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah), in 1872, extracted from the report of the 

 Government geologist, J. V. Hayden. 



