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expedition be sent from Mombasali to explore the 

 c Arcanum Magnum,' opining that the discovery" 

 of Kilima-njaro and Kenia had limited the area 

 of the head-waters between S. lat. 2° — 4° and E. 

 long. (G.) 32° — 36°, almost exactly the southern- 

 most position of the Nyanza Lake. In March, 

 1855, Lieut. -Colonel Hamerton forwarded con- 

 cise but correct notices, 6 On various points con- 

 nected with the H.M. Imam of Muskat,' which 

 was published in the Bombay Selections (No. 

 24). In Dec. 10, 1855, followed Mr James Mac- 

 queen's paper on the 6 Present state of the Geo- 

 graphy of some parts of Africa (read at the 

 Royal Geographical Society, April 8 and June 

 10, 1850), with 'Notes on the Geography of 

 Central Africa,' taken from the researches of 

 Livingstone, Monteiro, Graca, and others (Jour- 

 nal Royal Geographical Society, vol. xxvi. 109). 

 They show great critical ability. The map ac- 

 companying the memoir separated the ' Tangan- 

 yenka ' from the Nyassa Lake ; moreover, it 

 disposed the greater axes of these several waters 

 as they should be, nearly upon a meridian.' 

 Maps still suffered from that incubus the N'yassi 

 or Single Sea, stretching between S. lat. 7° — 12°, 

 and distorted by its 'historien geographe' from 

 the N. S. position occupied by the half-dozen lakes 



