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652 ae General Notes. 
Asia. THE Saraswati—The importance ascribed in the 
Vedas to the river Saraswati, there called the “chief and purest 
of rivers,’ points, as stated by Mr. R. D. S. Oldham (Pro 
Asiatic Soc. of Bengal), to some change in the hydrography 
the region, since the stream now called the Saraswati is qui 
insignificant. Mr. Oldham is of opinion that the Jumna, with 
the recent period of geology, flowed towards the Punjab, and 
gives reasons for identifying it with the Sutlej. 
PREJEVALSKY’s EXPLORATIONS.—Prejevalsky’s journeys in C 
tral Asia have probably done more towards the elucidation of t 
orography, hydrography, and ethnography of the regign that 
those of any other traveller. His first journey (1871-73) W 
across the Gobi Desert, between Kiachta and Kalgan, and then 
westward to Kansu in Western China. He visited Lake Koko Ni 
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'hasa, 
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Lake Uliunghar, and along its feeder, the Urungu, across tl 
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Desert of Dzungaria, to that of Gobi. The Dzungarian Dese 
| ae packings but yields excellent fuel. ‘The wild horse is 
~ met with in a corner of the desert of Dzungaria, the wild © 
