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temperature is wonderfully equable, varying in a year only from 
72° in September to 84° in April: ; 
r. Winnecke asserts, as in 1877, that Lake Eyre is a consid- 
erable depth below sea-level. The highest point along his survey 
of the route of the overland telegraph was the Burt plains, 2532 
feet above sea-level ; but the MacDonnell ranges, in which these 
plains arẹ situated, rise several thousand feet higher. The Finke 
river, the southern part of which is now being reéxplored by Mr. 
Lindsay, is described as the largest and most important in Central 
uStralia. : : 
The population of the Sandwich islands has increased from 
57,985 in 1878 to 80,578 in 1884, yet in that time the native race 
| as diminished from 44,088 to 40,014. The census of 1884 
«Rave 17,932 Chinese, 9377 Portuguese, 2066 Americans, 1282 
British, and 1600 Germans ; the previous numbers (1878) being 
4 5916, 436, 1276, 883 and 272 respectively. 
i A new atlas of the Dutch East Indies has been published at 
the Hague. It contains a map of the entire archipelago, four 
maps of Java and Madura, giving population, roads, etc. ; maps o 
Borneo, Celebes, Sumbawa, Timor, the Moluccas, etc. 
OPE.— European News-—From. the observations of E. von 
level dependent upon the amount of water brought down by 
ube, Don, etc. The maximum, nine to seventeen centimeters 
above mean water-level, is attained in May and June, and is high- 
ussia is greatest. —New and more precise levelings to ascer- 
tain the heights above the sea of Lakes Ladoga, Onega and Ilmen 
(Russia) place them at 16, 115 and 59 feet respectively; instead 
of as before believed, 59, 237 and 157 feet. The population of 
Prussia (not the German Empire), according to the census of De- 
cember 1, 1885, was 28,314,032. In 1880 it was 27,279,111.—— 
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meters in height. 
Chili. Not onl iculture, but manufacturing industr e 
ey y agricuiture, | g dies 
3 The colonists comprise members of most civilized 
parts of Java to a still larger scale, and others of Banka, Billiton, 
Eur 
Meydell, extending over a period of eight to ten years, it appears 
t the waters of the Black sea are subject to slight variations of 
—  AMERICA.—American News—A Swiss named Rodt has 
funded a flourishing colony in Juan Fernandez, which hel a 
nationalities, except Prussians, who are excluded,_—In the Jan- g 
o. VOL xXx.—yo, yi, 
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