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with eighty, and the other with ninety thousand images. This city 
was known to Ptolemy, who speaks of it as Triglyphon. 
The outward route was through the An Pass, while the return route 
was eighty miles to the north. The former was found far the better 
for a railway, though beyond Dalet it was cut up by creeks, many of 
which, however, could be missed by hugging Myaintaung Hill. 
Lieutenant Walker speaks of the Arakanese as indolent and cowardly 
beyond measure. 
W. M. Conway, with a party, started in February of the past year 
to explore the glacier regions of Baltistan and Karakoram, southeast 
of Pamir. News of his expedition has several times been received, 
but no full account has yet been given. He has been the first 
European to cross the Nashik pass; has explored the Hispar Glacier, 
a vast level sea of snow of 300 square miles, surrounded by a ring of 
giant peaks—the largest glacier outside of the polar circle; has 
ascended many lofty peaks, among which is one which he has named 
Pioneer Peak (over 23,000 feet) because it was found to precede the 
Golden Throne, some 2000 feet higher still. 
A new map of Persia, compiled from a great number of general and 
divisional maps, may be found in the issue of the Proceedings Royal 
Geographical Society for February, 1892. It is on a scale of 600 miles 
to the inch, and includes Afghanistan and Beluchistan. The bounda- 
ries of the famous Persian desert, the Dasht-i-Kavir, with its two large 
salt-swamps, and the Kuh-i-Gugird, are clearly shown. The desert is 
shaped like a dumb-bell, and the largest salt-swamp is in the centre of 
the western portion. 
Captain Bower and Dr. Thorold left Leh in June last year, crossed 
the widest part of Tibet, and passed a chain of salt-lakes, one of 
which, Bor-Ba-Tu, is probably the highest lake in the world, since it is 
situated 17,930 feet above sea-level. Their course lay from Ladak to 
Chiamdo, about 150 miles to the north of the route of Pundit Nain 
Singh. Though ordered back by the Tibetan authorities, they made 
their way through Tibet to west China. 
Burma and Assam seem temptingly close upon the map, and are 
only separated by about a hundred miles of hill country, yet a satis- 
factory road from one to the other has not yet been found. The high- 
est hills or mountains of the district range from but four to eight 
