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REPORT —1854. 
"When my informant spoke of the cold in his country, he described the water as 
getting a hard crust during the night, which of course can be nothing else but ice, 
called ' kungu ’ in their language. This, however, is only found in small collections 
of standing water (and never in the lake Niassa). The Wakiao (not Wahiau) arc 
spread on the eastern banks of the lake; to the south and south-west are the 
Wamaravi; and north from these the Wakamtunda, of whom the Wukuinpnndi find 
Wapogdra are only subdivisions. The name Mariivi, which in older maps is given 
as the name of the lake, I had never heard before from a native. Salimini, my in¬ 
formant, never applied it to the lake, hut to a largo territory bordering upon it, and 
in part forming its south-western bunks. Tile occupants are called Wamaravi; and 
these, together with the Wakamtunda, and perhaps still the other tribes, are, by the 
Suahelis on the const generally, comprised under the common name Waniassa. The 
Wakamanga, whom, on the map of 1S50, I have placed to the east of the lake, we, 
according to Salimini, to be placed even to the west of the Wakamtunda, to whom 
they stand in the same relation ns the Wakambn to the Wanika. He also mentioned 
a large river to the south of his country, which he called Tern bn, and the P*®pw 
living on its banks Watemha. Temba may lie identical with Tembo, about half • 
degree south of Ibo (Ul'bu). [Sec W. Keblc's map of Africa, published fortne 
Christian Knowledge Society.] In the vicinity of the Watcmba arc the Wanzunsh 
who, from an abundance of iron in their country, seem to be the principal lac * 
smiths among all the tribes around. On being applied to tor hoes by people " > 
have come from a distance, with a cow or goat for their barter, they will work all m 
night at their fires.” 
Hydrographical Remarks on the Improvement of the Port of Liverpool. 
By George Rennie, F.R.S. 
•Seymour. 
one summer 
On the Caucasus and Parts of the Crimea, By D 
Mr. Seymour passed through the Crimea nine years ago, and spent one sumnur 
there ; in Circassia he spent three years, and visited it at two different tunes oe . 
and after a long journey in Persia and India. 'Hie Crimen contains row‘ ™ cc 
peop e; amongst whom are the Tartars, the great bulk of the pop u| ati°n, { 
Creeks, many remaining of the old Greek colonies established there; also an a . 
colony of Jews, near Simpheropol; and lastly, the Russians, who had gone 
great numbers sinn> tlm . about the yt 
there m 
ear J78*- 
great numbers since the country came into their possession, about the y . 
He referred to Pcrekop, which,"ho said, was n cold climate, little culti ’ , 
containing hardly any Russian population. The steppes and plain 3 were® uJ)ti | 
he Downs in Wiltshire. Thence there were slopes all along the co • r 
approaching Siraphcropol, near the centre of the island, and scarcely . 
landmark to intercept the view. The plains then rise gradually on fPP yjj, 
Simpheropol, where the mountains are visible, and there are little undu '*'“ g UD ded 
« tr passing that town. It j s a pretty Russian town, with good houses, j MlU t 
by woods, and is principally inhabited by Russians. To the Bonth-^b 
forty miles, is Balaklavn, where there is a beautiful remnant of old Mown® 
lecture, the palace of the old Khan of the Crimea; near that, id the moon 
the colony of the Jews before alluded to. They are that section «1 the J , 
rejected the interpolation of the Talmud. Leaving Balaklava, he visited 
kAi contrasting the southern with the northern portion of the coun . C *| 
he described as being different in their climate and general character/-- . «i 
, ■ t T : 1 aun . c chain of hills which rise from the sea in a most deligh 
«h.ch the rich Russians come and spend the summer. With regard to . 
'*l. a P}? cc destitute of attraction in respect to climate and other c,r ^ thc clouds 
m winter the cold was extreme, arising from certain winds, and in summer *J t 0 f the 
ZT SUdl ** bl m,(Jer ^ almost uninhabitable. The southern ^ 
n. iT, , rrom thc effecta of these winds. There "as good veg 
on the slopes of the hilU, and the vine grew in large quantities. I* ** 1 ffiief 
Kertch that a portion of the wine produced there As sold in Europe as an 
kind ox port and sherry. All 
Mr. Seymour afterwards returned to Simpheropol through the mountains. 
