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but that with him and poor Maguire we lose a great portion of the 
results of his arduous explorations and accurate observations. 
M. von Neimen, a young German gentleman of good family, 
who went to Egypt solely with the noble object of penetrating to 
Darfur and Wadai, there to ascertain the fate of Yogel, I regret to 
say, died of a lock-jaw at Cairo. 
The fate of the faithful and intelligent Corporal Maguire has 
been already narrated to you in our Proceedings. In his last 
moments he exhibited the same unflinching tenacity and bravery 
which had marked his conduct throughout. Appalled by no sickness 
and intimidated by no foe, this fine specimen of a British soldier 
killed several of his murderous assailants before he lost his own 
life. 
GEOGRAPHICAL PROGRESS. 
Britain — Admiralty Surveys. — Following the plan of my last 
year’s Address, I begin with the account of the Maritime Surveys of 
Britain, for the substance of which I am indebted to my eminent 
friend Captain Washington. 
The Coast Surveys in course of execution under the orders of the 
Admiralty both at home and abroad have made steady progress 
during the past year. They are conducted by twenty different 
surveying parties, one-half of which are employed on portions of 
the United Kingdom, the remainder in the colonies of Australia, 
Cape of Good Hope, West Indies, Nova Scotia, St. Lawrence, and 
Vancouver Island, also in the Mediterranean, Coast of China, and 
Red Sea. 
British Isles . — The Coast Survey of the United Kingdom has 
reached a point at which we can confidently predict that a very 
few more seasons will place the public, and all who take an interest 
in geography, in possession of a complete representation of the 
British Isles, not only as their shores, islets, and rocks rise above 
the level of high water, but also as the whole group reposes upon a 
bed circumscribed by a boundary line of 100 fathoms in depth. 
The study of the configuration of that line is instructive. It 
shows that the group, although apparently broken up into three 
large, and countless small, islands, is physically connected on the 
south-east, through Belgium and Holland, with the continent of 
