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traverse on account of the hostility of the Bedouins. From the 
lines of now abandoned beach which he has discovered at a 
height of sixty meters in the Gulfs of Suez and of Akabah, Mr. 
Hull believes that a communication existed between the Red sea 
and the Mediterranean in the time of the Exodus. He also be- 
lieves that the level of the Dead sea was formerly 425 meters 
higher than it now is. 
Evrope.—The three provinces which have been added to Greece 
by the treaty of Berlin have at last’ an organized administration. 
They are named, after their chief places, Trikkala, Larissa, and 
Arta, but the two former are properly Upper and Lower Thes- 
saly, and the last is a small portion of Epirus. Trikkala has 117,- 
229 inhabitants; Larissa, 144,621, and Arta only 31,178. 
Australia—Mr. Lindsay’s explorations in Arnheim land, north- 
west of the Gulf of Carpenteria, have resulted in the discovery of 
much good land, and of some new rivers. Following the coast 
northwards from the Roper, a river called Parsons or Rose was 
found, with good ground at its head. The Walker, a river not in- 
dicated in the survey map of 1880, was followed for forty miles 
through a mountainous and beautiful country. Across the water- 
parting from this river, another fine river was reached, and was 
followed until it was found to be the Goyder, the mouth of which 
was all that was before known. The district around this river is 
fitted for grazing, agriculture or sugar-growing. The Blythe is 
another fine river, but the Liverpool, which looms large on the 
chart, does not run at twenty-miles from the sea. The party had 
much difficulty with the natives, who speared four horses, and 
suffered much from want of water on the Liverpool, and in other 
places between the rivers. . 
Grocrapuicat Notes.—Mr. E. G. Ravenstein has contributed 
to the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society a résumé 
of all that is known respecting Somal and Galla Jand, embodying 
information collected by the Rev. Thos. Wakefield. Mr. A. 
ackay has undertaken a boat voyage from Uganda to 
Kagege, along the western shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, and 
has explored Jordan’s Nullah, the position of which is errone- 
ously marked on all published maps. He believes that the height 
of the lake given by Stanley (3800 feet) is 300 feet too much. 
Mr. Selons has recently explored a tract of elevated country 
lying near the headwaters of the Sabi, and between the 
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