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over the Himalayas, called the Pangula, is about 20,000 feet 
above the sea. More obstruction was met with at Deprak, the 
frontier village of Tibet, but leave to advance was at length 
obtained from the governor of Dingri, who exercises all civil and 
military jurisdiction over a large tract of Southern Tibet. Dingri 
has about 250 stone houses, and stands at an altitude of 13,360 
feet. From Dingri the explorer proceeded by the Digurthanka 
plain and Palguche lake (said to have no outlet) to Jonkhajong, the 
most northwestern point reached. Hence he went southwards to 
Kirong, followed the Tusuli river for awhile, visited Nubri and 
Arughat (Nepal), and finally, via Deoghat, reached Tirbenighat, on 
the British frontier on Jan. 13, 1886. Beyond Kirong, on the 
Nepalese frontier, the road runs along a gallery of planks laid upon 
iron bolts driven into the rock. Parts of the plain of Southern 
Tibet show signs of a former larger population, and it is said that 
in the last great war between the Nepalese and the Tibetans most 
of the inhabitants were killed. 
R. VON LuscHaAn’s JOURNEY IN Asra Minor.—At a recent 
meeting of the Geographical Society of Berlin, Dr. von Luschan 
spoke of his explorations in Asia Minor, undertaken chiefly with 
archeological aims. Dr. Luschan accompanied Otto Bensdorf into 
Lycia in 1881, and afterwards visited the tomb of Antiochus I., 
discovered by Otto Predestein in 1882. This is an immense 
tumulus on the right bank of the Euphrates, between Iskenderun 
and Bagdad, on the peak Nemrud Dagh (7000 feet). The 
tumulus is flanked on the east and west by five gigantic figures of 
gods, sixteen to twenty-three feet high. At a distance of ten days’ 
journey from the coast, the traveler along this route comes upon the 
ancient bridge over the Boilam-Su,a single stone arch, sixty-five feet 
in height and 325 in length. It was built by Septimius Severus, 
arracalla and Geta, and is to-day in perfect preservation. After- 
wards Dr. Luschan took part in the expedition of Count Lancko- 
roviski, the object of which was the archeological exploration of 
Cilicia and Pamphylia. In other later journeys Dr. von Luschan 
turned his attention to the complicated ethnography of Asia Minor. 
The Turco-Mongolian anatomical type is not to be found among 
the so-called Turks of Asia Minor. The Mohammedans of the 
peninsula belong to three types, viz.: Old-Grecian, Armenian and 
Semitic. The race which gave the religion and language was 
numerically too weak to influence, to any considerable extent, the 
physical nature of the conquered people. The Greeks exhibit the 
same three types, the true Greek predominating along the west 
coast and on the islands. The Armenians are a compact an 
homogeneous people, anatomically allied to the Tachkadschy or 
Alleor of Lycia, the Ansarieh or Fellach of S. E. Asia Minor 
