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in Victoria. Neither in metal nor markings did it resemble the 
- modern coins, but in its figures looked more like an Aztec calen- 
dar. So faras I can make out the markings, this is a Chinese 
chronological cycle of sixty years, invented by the Emperor 
Huungti, 2637 B. C., and circulated in this form to make his peo- 
ple remember it— Xames Deans. 
Furcian Erunotocy.—Professor A. H. Keane, in Mature, Au- 
gust 9, reviews a paper in Guido Cora’s Cosmos for May, written 
by Lieut. Bove, of the Italian Antarctic expedition, in which oc- 
cur some interesting details on the Fuegians. The archipelago 
is occupied by three races, the Alacalufs in the west, the Onas in 
the east, and the Yagans in the south. The latter, extending 
from the north side of Beagle channel southward to Cape Horn, 
appear to be the true aborigines, driven to their inhospitable 
islands by the other two tribes intruding from the mainland. The 
nas, who are clearly of Tehuelche origin, penetrated from Pata- 
gonia across the eastern arm of Magellan strait into the large , 
island of King Charles South Land. The Alacalufs, of Arau- 
canian stock, made their way from the Chilian Andes, across the 
western arm of Magellan strait into the islands from Cape Pillar 
to Stewart island. The Onas number about 2000, the other two 
about 3000 each. The Yagans appear to have been originally of 
the same stock as the Alacalufs, they are below the middle height, 
though nearly as tall as the Araucanians. They are distinguished 
y low brows, prominent zygomatic arches, large pendant lips, 
flat nose, round face, loose, wrinkly skin, thin extremities, legs 
curved outward, hair coarse, lank, long and black, with few excep- 
tions, They neither tattoo nor paint, and are scantily clad. Their 
houses are wretched hovels, but their beechwood canoes are skill- 
fully made. In these frail craft they navigate the stormy chan- 
nels, pursuing the whale and the dolphin beyond sight of land. 
e Yagans are polygamists and exacting of their wives, who are 
Prolific, however, and industrious. Many children succumb to 
the climate, and those who survive soon shift for themselves. 
ittle of social organization exists beyond the family and the 
hunting party. The belief in the supernatural and in a future 
existence seems to be little developed. The statement that the 
guage contains 30,000 vocables is received by Mr. Keane with 
extreme caution, 
Tue Arrantisi—M. E. F. Berlioux, professor of geography in 
the faculty of ‘letters, Lyon, has just published a learned work en- 
titled “ Les Atlantes : histoire dẹ l’Atlantis et de l’Atlas Primitif, 
ou Introduction a l’histoire de l’Europe” (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 
883, Pp. 170, 8vo). The question of Atlantis rests upon an 
agyptian tradition related by Solon, and preserved by Plato in 
the timæus and the Critias. For all the events related in this 
~ tradition, the dates and the geographical positions, there is always 
