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almost continuous chain of islets and detached rocks, separated 
from the coast by intricate and deep canals. The western coast 
itself is a line of snow-covered mountains, while the eastern parts 
of the islands, comparatively flat and of Tertiary formation, recall 
the pampas of the continent. 
It has been found that existing maps are in error in many points. 
The west coast only of Hoste island had previously been deline- 
ated, but now the entire contour is known. New Year sound, a 
great bay filled with islets and ending in four great arms, and the 
strait between Pothuau and Jaureguiberry islands have been fixed 
with precision, and the coast line of Wollaston group, composed 
of the three large islands, Grevy, Bayly and Wollaston, has been 
ermined. 
The islands consist of peninsulas joined to each other by nar- 
tow low isthmuses. Between these peninsulas run deep fjords, 
often terminating in glaciers that descend to the sea. Ponsonby 
sound, the largest of these fjords, penetrates twenty-eight miles 
into the interior of Hoste island. 
Grocrapuicat Nores,—Professor Hall has made a complete 
Survey of the Waddy Arabah and the Dead sea, with a traverse 
across Southern Palestine. Akabah was laid down too far south, 
and the south part of the Dead sea, as shown on the maps, is 
quite out of its true shape and position. The Lisan has to be 
and about the beginning of March to explore New Guinea. The 
bend of 50" . long.), has been followed up, and an immense 
and a this river to the west, due to a high chain of mountains, 
fe hee’ lake Shiva, 11,000 feet above the sea, to the west o 
this bend, will considerably modify the maps of the west of this 
and the wh € great Pamir chain has been crossed in four places, 
veys, whole region has been covered with a network of sur- 
~A letter from Dr. Rich. Böhm, dated July, 1883, 
te Pople of Caiza. The victims were killed upon the iden- 
killed, where, a few days before, ten or twelve Indians had been 
the river “urat and Blanco, who escaped massacre by swimming 
i » Were afterwards taken, and died after six months of 
