JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



No. II.— 18GG. 



Russian Geographical Operations in Asia. — Communicated hy Lieut. 

 Col J. T. Walker, R. E* 



[Received 8th March, 1866.] 

 Translation of a Portion of the " Compte Rendu de la Sooiete 



Im PERI ALE GeOGRAPIIIQUE DE RusSIe" FOR 1864. 



The Society has never failed to profit by every opportunity that 

 has presented itself, for extending our geographical knowledge of 

 the countries bordering on Central Asia ; consequently, in the month 

 of February last year, M. Severstow, a distinguished Naturalist, who 

 was accompanying an expedition into the countries beyond the Hi 

 and the Tchou, was charged to collect information, with a view to 

 preparing a physico -geographical description of all the countries through 

 which the expedition would pass. 



* Of the two accompanying papers, one is a translation of a portion of the 

 " Compte Rendu de la Societe Imperiale Geographique do Russie," for the year 

 1864, while the other is a translation from the 4th volume of the Journal of the 

 Russian Geographical Society for 1864. 



in the first the names are spelt as in the original French memoir. 



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