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ma hag occurrence of the crocodilian genus Tomistoma in theMiocene of 
alta, 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.) * 
Asia.—Tong-king—The April number of the Proceedings of 
the Royal Geographical Society contains a map of Tong-king, 
accompanied by an article upon the hill region which lies beyond 
the delta of the Song-coi. The writer (Mr. I. G. Scott) states that 
though the Song-coi is a noble-looking river, boats drawing over 
fifteen feet cannot ascend its Cua Cam mouth to Haiphong, while 
ts drawing six feet have difficulty in reaching Ha-noi. There 
are four principal mouths, of which the Cua Cam is the most 
Northern, but it seems probable that the Cua Dai (the most south- 
ern) „will shortly be made use of for deep-sea ships. The 
provinces of Kwung-yen, Lang-son, Cao-bang, Thai-nguyen and 
Tuyen-kwan form the plateau region, north of the Song-coi 
vrs This is a land of rounded, grassy hills, without prominent 
peaks, 
The delta is rapidly extending. When Ha-noi was built by the 
Chinese in the eighth century, it was a sea-port, but is now a hun- 
Scographically and ethnographically, Chinese. It is on the 
Chinese slope and is separated from the rest of Tong-king by a 
mountain belt fifty miles in width. Some remarkable 
Cave-temples exist near the town. : 
The Survey of Japan.—During the last five years the National 
Survey of Japan has been steadily progressing under. the super- 
itendence of Dr, Naumann, who has now left the task to be 
carried out by the Japanese he has trained. An account of the work 
soapy may be found in Nature (April 29th, 1886). The sur- 
‘erous, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks was 
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