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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.! 
arsoe, “beyond which nothing can be seen on sea or land but 
ice and snow.” 
Then returning to Hvarf he leads us westwards, and mentions, 
seriatim, localities whose names are also found in the Sagas and 
the other chorographies. Then occur these woras, “ Northwards 
from Ericksfjord are two arms of the sea, named Ydrevig and 
Indrevig. Next, northwards lies Bredefyord ; thence further to 
the north is Eyrarfjord, and so on to Iself jord, which is the most 
westerly fjord in the East Bygd.” He then says that a space of 
twelve nautical miles of uninhabited coast separated the West 
from the East Bygd. 
Major points out that this description can only be ex- 
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plained by referring Hvarf to Cape Farewell, or some headland 
near it, as, were it a point on the west coast, the succeeding 
Places toward the west would be southward of each other instead 
of northward. He states also that the Nancy map, discovered 
by Nordenskiéld, has only the words “Gronlandia Provincia” 
Within a fancy festooned line, while the Zeno map, which is a 
century earlier than the first voyage of Columbus, shows the 
entire coast, east and west. 
Portant information respecting the little known central provinces 
of that country. The Andes in Colombia divide into three par- 
allel ranges, of which the most western is the primitive chain, 
and consists of granites and diorites infinitely older than the vol- 
canic rocks of the central chain, which are of Post-cretaceous or 
even Tertiary age. The continuity of the valley which separates 
these two chains is broken at a point nearer to its southern than 
its northern extremity by a great focus of volcanic action, repre- 
sented by the volcanoes of Puracé, Sotara, etc. The upheaval at 
'S point separates the valley of the Cauca, which flows north- 
Wards into the Magdalena, from that of the Patia, which flows 
South for 120 miles, and then turning abruptly westward along a 
*This department is edited by W. N. LocCKINGTON, Philadelphia. 
