1030 General Notes. [October 
the land west of the Conger mountains convinced Lieut, Gredy 
that Grinnell land tends directly south from Lieut, Aldrichs — 
farthest in 1876. Ruggles river was open at its mouth in Apal 
Winter quarters of Eskimo were found, and some relics showing 
that they had possessed dogs, sleds and iron. Mount Arthurs 
the highest point in Grinnell land, which has two ranges 
mountains, the Conger and Garfield ranges, parallel to and be- 
yond the United States range. Hares, birds, and musk-oxts 
were seen in plenty on this journey. In March of this year Ser- 
geant Long, while hunting, looked from the north-west side of 
Mount Carey tu Hayes’ sound, and saw on the northern coast 
three capes to the westward of the farthest seen by Naresin 1870 
This sound extends twenty miles farther west than is shown by 
the English chart, but is possibly shut in by land, which showed 
up across the western end. 
Geysers of the Ycllowstone-—Science tells us that a compari 
of the thermal activity of the geysers’in Yellowstone in 1878,wit 
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geyser in the Fire-hole basin, and another in the upper Bee 
basin. The first, situated on the broad inter terrace nortan 
the mounds of the Fountain geyser, has a pool 90 to 100 Be 
across. The vent is near the west border, and throws up at us 
first burst a column of water eight feet in diameter and A 
five or thirty feet high. There is apparently a second seit 
lesser power. Dr. Peale, in 1878, suggested that this mipi S 
geyser. It is named the Surprise. The new geyser 1n the 4 
Basin is Spring No. y of the Emerald group, and peers 
water to a height of from thirty to fifty feet. This 1s catt 
Cliff geyser. ce 
Arrica—The Bahr-el-Ghazal--Letters from Lupton od 
dated November sth and 6th, 1883, proves that up to that: 
he was alive and well, and actively engaged in fighting pares 
Although these operations, with the impossibility ne expla 
tion with Khartoum, have greatly hindered geograph routes, a 
tion, Mr. Lupton has transmitted a sketch of his rome — 
some valuable determinations of latitude, height, ete 
The river Kuta, which at Barusso (about 22°: 50 Ba yt 7 
5° 15 N. lat.) is from two to three miles broad, is iv 
junction of the Welle and the Mbomo. These two a 
the headwaters of the affluents of which rise close to niam 
tributaries of the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and water the pga art 
Mangbutta countries, unite at Mabele, about thirteen ketch ma 6 
east of ni an and the Kuta is shown on the $ ee Loot 
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opposes the theory that the Kuta is the Sham y 
fact that the latter river is only half a mile wie ™ 
