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by the earth opening and swallowing her all up except her long plait 
of hair, which is still visible (to the head mallah only). By a new pass, 
the expedition will enter Tibet during the present summer. The 
botanical collection of Roborowsky contains 430 species. 
Miscellaneous Geographical News.—The Peruvian govern- 
ment have despatched an expedition to the river Javary, on the borders 
of Peru and Bolivia, in order to chastise the Indians for the murder of 
of white traders. As the party includes among its members five scien- 
tific men, among whom is the well-known Richard Payer, some useful 
results may be looked for. 
According to Venukoff, the increase in size of the delta of the 
Neva is small compared with that of the deltas of the Danube, Rhone, 
and Volga. The water of the river is comparatively free from sedi- 
ment, because the principal tributaries deposit their load in Lake 
Ladoga, which is only sixty-five kilometres distant from the Gulf of 
Finland. 
According to Dr. Hettner, two different peaks have been confused 
under the name of Coropuna. The peak called Coropuna at Arequipa 
seems to be higher than the true mountain of that title—which also 
bears the names of Arupato and Salmancay (Indian)—and is probably 
the highest of the entire volcanic range. 
The republics of Central America propose to unite under the title of 
the United States of Central America. The president is to be elected 
annually, and to be furnished by each of the States in turn. The 
federal capital is to be Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. The 
Congress will be composed of eighteen deputies, one for each 200,000 
of the populatiop, and the first meeting is to be on Sept. 15, 1890. 
population of the Peloponnesus. The Goths and other barbarian 
hordes ravaged and departed, so that the first immigrants who came to 
stay in considerable numbers were the Slavs. At the beginning of 
' the thirteenth century the bulk of the population consisted either of 
New Greek, otherwise called Byzantine or Rhomzi, who inhabited 
the cities, especially those of the coast, and of New Greek mixed with 
Slav, scattered allover the country. The old Hellenic element per- 
sisted, however, in a nearer approach to purity, in Mani and Tzakonia, 
while the Slavic was almost pure in Arcadia and Taygetos. The 
Greek language eventually predominated over the Slav. Later on 
