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at a higher zone, they have on dying simply subsided, to form the 
chief part of the fine, undisturbed, muddy bottom. 
In the mean time the survey of the Cyclops has shown, that a 
perfectly tranquil and secure resting-place is ready for the reception 
of the greatest length of the cable of the magnetic Atlantic tele- 
graph. May then the accidental misfortune of last summer be 
avoided, and may the able and vigorous measures of the Company 
employed in carrying out this grand international work be 
eventually crowned with all the success they deserve. 
Conclusion . — I have now, Gentlemen, to apologize for having 
detained you so long in my endeavour to lay before you, not 
merely an analysis of our own labours, but also of those which have 
been in progress in most parts of the world, together with brief in- 
dications of the theoretical as well as practical appliances by which 
geographical science has been advanced.- Let me conclude then 
with a few words on some of our own immediate operations as sus- 
taining the reputation of the Society, and as influencing public 
opinion. 
The volume of our Journal, the 27th in number, which has 
recently been issued, has, I trust, been found equal in merit to any 
one of former years. The mere announcement of some of the 
names of the contributors and subjects sufficiently testifies that 
we are well working out our varied objects of research. Thus, 
whilst the soldier and scholar are gratified with the scrutiny of 
certain campaigns of the ancient Greeks placed before us by General 
Jochmus, as derived from a critical examination by him of battle- 
fields and marches, other comparative geographers may trace with 
Loftus the course of the Euleeus. 
In delineating those parts of Persia with which he has long been 
familiar, General Monteith has shown us the lines by which bodies 
of men can advance, and those where great difficulties must be en- 
countered; whilst Rawlinson, comparing ancient with modern 
geography, has clearly demonstrated the extent to which the delta 
of the Euphrates has advanced upon the Persian Gulf in the historic 
period. Again, in the same region Abbott describes the route from 
Shiraz to Fessa and Darab ; and in turning to the hitherto slightly 
known country of Burma, we have been furnished with a compre- 
hensive, clear sketch of its geographical features by Captain Yule. 
From Africa (not to speak of other contributions) we have those 
original letters of Livingstone which foreshadowed the admirable 
work which that explorer was destined to produce ; whilst from 
