798 General Notes. (September, 
Dr. Bunge was preparing to visit the New Siberian Island of’ 
Koteling this spring. 
The Turki Tongues——Mr. Morison, of Tiflis, has contributed to 
the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society a summary of the dis- 
tribution of the Turki languages. Turki proper is spoken by the 
Turks of the Ottoman empire, in the Russian governments of 
Nijni Novgorod, Kasan, Simbirsk, Viatka and Orenburg; in 
Trans-Caucasia and in N. W. Persia. The Nogai branch is used 
in Bessarabia, the Crimea, Cis-Caucasia, the Volga delta, North- 
east Daghestan, the Terek valley, the N. W. shore of the Caspian, 
Kasan, Simbirsk, Orenburg and Ufa; the Uigar branch in Yark- 
hand and Chinese Tartary, the Tekke country, the Zarafshan 
valley, Khiva and Kuldja; the Kirghiz from the Volga to the 
confines of Manchuria, especially in S. W. Siberia; and the Yakut 
in N. E. Siberia and the northern slopes of Mount Sayan. Thus 
the Ugro- Altaic tongues extend over 100° of longitude and 35 
of latitude, and Turki alone is the language of twenty millions of 
people. 
and new-comers, though the Chinese have supposed all to be abo- 
rigines. The Amias, who are said to have been brought by "p 
man marries, he enters his wife’s family, while among th chey 
_ the reverse is the case. The Tipuns have a tradition that 
_ Came from some other country. 
_. _ AFRICA.— The Congo—The point at which the French ere? 
~ Sions and the Congo Free State meet upon the Congo fas pay 
= fixed at the intersection of the river with the parallel of 6 kof 
___ lat., 400 meters from the village of Pombo, and on the right bank © 
_ the Ubangi. The line from thence to the coast has n 
