878 General Notes. [ October, 
fauna of this lake does not include a single species of fish which 
characterizes the Aralo-Caspian region; while there is great 
resemblance between the fishes of Lake Balkash and those of 
the high plateau of Central Asia. There was certainly, in recent 
geological times, a connection between the rivers of the Balkash 
basin and those of the Lob-nor basin. 
AmeErica.—American News—NMr. Whitely has ascended Twek- 
kway, a table-topped mountain in Guiana, situated about fifty 
miles N.N.W. of the now celebrated Roraima on the southern 
AFRICA.— Mr. Farini’s ¥ourney in the Kalahari— The J ay 
number of the Proc. Roy. Geog. Society contains an wore 
a recent journey in the Kalahari desert, by G. A. Farini. af 
desert forms the western portion of the new British pr otectoraté 
Bechuanaland, and has been but little explored. | half: 
portion, immediately north of Griqua land, is occupied by 
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