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Agassiz, A.—The Tortugas and Florida reefs. From Memoirs of Amer. Acad. of 
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Geinitz, H. B,—Ueber neue Funde in den Phosphat lagern von Helmstedt, Biidden- 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.’ 
rent to any. one who has lived long in China, and knows, on the 
one hand, the large extent of thinly-populated country, and, on 
the other, the character of the officials employed upon the cen- 
about 250,000,000 a fair estimate of the population. 
Although the Chinese race has spread over so large a territory, 
and absorbed, more by its .energy and superior civilization, com- 
bined with constant intermarriages, than by force, many native 
races, one race at least has in part remained independent. This 
is the Lolo, or as they call themselves, Lo-su and Ngo-su, the 
Coloman of Marco Polo. Though confined within a much smaller 
territory than in the days of Marco, an almost impregnable 
aa f 
In the discussion which followed this paper, Sir T. Wade said, 
Population less than half a million, while the great fair or market 
Wn of Hankow could never have had more 
uang-lung and Kuang-si were easily distinguished from those 
% the rest of the empire, and Kuang-lung was not joined to the 
FERUS until six centuries after Christ. These people were not 
mprobably a Malay immigration. While all other Chinese spoke 
of themselves as men of Han, from the dynasty of that 
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