146 The American Naturalist. [March, 
but even to and beyond the Cameroons. The Germans, who 
later on commenced to treat with the natives of this part of the 
coast, recognized in 1885 the rights of Spain as far north as 
the river Campi. In various expeditions under Dr. Ossario, 
Ivadier, and the governor Sr. Montes de Oca, the basins of 
the Campo, Benoto or Eyo, and Muni, were explored, and as 
many as 370 chiefs recognized the rule of Spain. The terri- 
tory thus embraced covers about 50,000 sq. kilometres, and if 
the strip is carried inwards between the same degrees of lati- 
tude to the Ubangi, parallel to the French possessions, would 
contain at least 180.000 k. It is, moreover, a fertile and thor- 
oughly well-watered country, well-wooded and capable of 
great production. 
The City of Wazan.— It is extraordinary and almost 
unexampled, says Don T. de Cuevas, in a recent issue 
of the Boletin of the Madrid Geographical Society, to meet 
among the most remote folds of the Masamoda mountains a 
city of at least 11,500 inhabitants, a centre of mercantile ac- 
tivity and of traffic among semi-independent kabyles, the seat 
of a religious power that at the commencement of this century 
made the monarchs of the Magreb tremble on their throne, and 
the residence of Xarifes who descend from kings and even 
from a higher stock, since in their veins runs the blood of Mo- 
hammed. Uazzan has various orthographies, the French know 
it as Ouezzan, the English as Wazan. 
When at the destruction of Baurce, 979-84 A.D. the Edri- 
site power was overthrown, part of the Edrisites took refuge 
in the Uad Droa, and established themselves in Axyen, a town 
of Arjona, at the beginning of the XVI. century, a little after 
the Xerifes Saadies had acquired the throne of Morocco. 
From Axyen, the emir Muley Abdallah changed his residence 
to Wazan. The consent of this Xerif is necessary in order to 
make the election of the Sultan legal. 
Geographical Notes.— The Hungarian, M. Dechy has 
ascended Elbourz and has reconnoitred the glaciers which sur- 
round that peak ; and M. Trillo has explored the right bank 
of the Volga and has discovered the ruins of an ancient city, 
in which, from the marbles, aqueducts, and Arab, Persian, and 
Tartar coins met with, a high civilization must have existed. 
Two small sections of railway have at last been opened in 
Persia, one from Teheran to Xahzade-Abdulazin, the other 
from the coast of the Caspian to Amal, the capital of the 
