826 General ‘Notes. 
Mr. J. THomson’s TRAVELS IN Morocco.—Mr. Joseph 
Thomson is now traveling in Morocco, where by cleverly-planned 
excursions he has entered the mountain fastnesses and done more 
than any previous traveler. From Demnat he made two interesting 
trips into the lower ranges, and visited some remarkable caves and 
ruins, as well as one of the most wonderful natural bridge-aqueduets 
in the world. He then made a dart across the main axis of the Atlas 
to the district of Tiluit in the basin of the Draa. As the tribes 
further west were in revolt, he was compelled to return to the 
northern plains. He then crossed the mountains by a pass a little 
south of Jebel Tizah, and reached the Gindafy safely. After a trip 
up a wonderful cafion, and the ascent of a mountain, whence the 
party were compelled to return, though by a new route, to their 
starting point. Mr. Thomson again crossed the mountains, and 
with no small difficulty and danger ascended the highest peak of 
the Atlas range north of Amsiviz, to a height of 12,500 feet. He 
then returned to Morocco, whence he wrote to the London Times 
on July 22. He proposes to make his way up the Urika river, 
and to work round to Mogador. . 
Tur GERMAN East AFRICAN PossEsstons.—The Mittheilungen 
of the Vienna Geographical Society for June has an article by Dr. 
Hans Meyer on the German East African Protectorate, which is 
said to comprise the East African coastlands, terraces, and plateaus 
for a distance north and south of 550 miles, and east and west of 
150 miles. The southern boundary is the Rovuma river, and a con- 
ventional line run from thence to Lake Nyassa, while to the north 
it is conterminous with the British Protectorate, from which it 18 
separated by a line passing from Lake Victoria Nyanza in an 
oblique direction along the north foot of Kilima-njaro to the ee 
at about 5 S. Lat., below Mombasa. It thus includes the head- 
waters of streams flowing to the Nile, Congo, and Zambesi. 
Sons, Great Russell street, London, have recently published a 
which has considerable interest to all who study early Amer! 
geography. Johann Schöner, Professor of Mathe: 
pages dated 1523, and thus later than the two first of his gen, 
which were dated 1515 and 1520. This pamphlet oont Magellan 
—discoveries that are not shown on Schöner’s earlier globes. J 
1885 Mr. Stevens found a fac-simile of this very globe in os er’s 
logue of a Munich bookseller. The reproduction of agati 
pamphlet and globe in fac-simile, with a translation and an 1” 
