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gathering flowers and laying them bouquet-fashion, stems together, at 
the mouth of its burrow, is enlarged upon. The notes are accompanied 
by a map which shows the great Illecellewaet glacier, with its accom- 
panying neve, the Lily glacier, and those of Sir Donald, Dawson, 
Deville and Geikie. Most of the glaciers are at heights of from 7500 
to 8800 feet, while the mountains rise but to 10,645 (Sir Donald moun- 
tain) and 10,622 (Mount Bonney). 
Colonel Labre's Travels.— Colonel Labre, in 1887, crossed 
overland from the india-rubber settlements on the Madre de Dios, to 
the nearest navigable point on the Aquiry tributary of the Purus, in 
order to ascertain whether there were facilities for the construction of a 
road, and eventually of a railroad, to supersede the present route down 
the Madeira, which is so arduous that it needs thirty-four days to pass 
161 miles, between San Antonio and the mouth of the Beni. The 
distance from Novo York, on the Aquiry, to Amapo, on the Madre de 
Dios, was found to be ninety-three miles, with only two rivers to cross. 
The Ibuxy tributary of the Purus had previously been explored by 
Colonel Labre. In the wet season this river is navigable from its 
mouth to the falls, 370 miles. Colonel Labre established two rubber 
stations, in 1884, at the- mouth of the Curykethe, 200 miles from the 
Purus. Above the Curykethe the banks are higher and the ground 
more undulating than below. The colonel estimates the number of 
wild Indians living on this river and its affluents at 8000. 
Africa.— Mr. Thomson's Travels in Morocco.— The January 
issue of The Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. contains a map of South-Western 
Morocco, reduced from the field maps of Mr. Joseph Thomson, who 
spent a part of last year in its exploration. The object of Mr. 
Thomson's journey was not only to extend our knowledge of a 
country the greater part of which is unexplored, but also to trace the 
parent sources of the infant civilization of Central Soudan. 
From Tangiers to the Wady Tensift, on the way to Mogador, the 
country is a gently undulating upraised sea-bed, nowhere rising above 
500 feet, and crossed by only one stream, the Um-cr-Rbia. Trees are 
absent and population scant. At the Tensift the area affected by the 
rising of the Atlas is reached, and the Tertiary gives way to Cretaceous 
lime-stones and shales, covered with a forest of the oil-tree called the 
"Argan," which lives where the olive cannot grow. Farther on, in 
the province of Shiedma, a crust of cemented calcareous particles 
practically seals up the soil from the husbandman. 
