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THE newly published volume of the Geographical Society's Journal contains some useful and even valuable contributions to geography. The veteran traveller, Capt. R. F. Burton, furnishes a memoir respecting the new map of Midian constructed by the officers of the Egyptian General Staff. Capt. Barton however, as might be expected, supplies geographical infonformation beyond that given by the Egyptian officers. He also contributes a second paper of a different character on the subject of a visit to Lissa and Pelagosa. Eveh more valuable than Capt. Burton's first paper is Lieut. R. C. Temple's account of the country traversed by the second column of the Tal-Chotiali field-force in the spring of 1879, Witk his sketch-map of part of the country passed over by it between Candahar and India. This memoir has evidently been drawn up with elaborate care, and embodies a mass of important information. The notes upon some astronomical observations made in Kordofan and Darfur by Major H. G. Prout of the Egyptian Staff are also of value, and are accompanied by a map of routes in the two provinces, constructed by the Society's draughtsman from the reconnaissances of various officers in the service of the Khedive. Mr. E. Colborne Baber, lately our Consular representative at Chungking in Western China, also communicates through the Foreign Office some brief remarks under the heading of “Approximate Determination of Positions in South-Western China,” to which are appended a number of tables of observations for latitude, &c.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 22, 569–570 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022569b0
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