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Ocean highways, October.—The principal article in this month's number is one by Lieut. Salaverry, of the Peruvian Navy, on the “Navigation of the Upper Amazon and its Peruvian Tributaries,” in which he gives some very interesting particulars of the measures that have been adopted by the Peruvian Government to open up and encourage the flow of commerce along the great fluvial highways which connect the rich provinces of the Andes with the Atlantic. The amount of work done by the Peruvian Government during the last few years in the exploration of the region with which the article is concerned is wonderful, and we are sure quite unknown even to many of those who take an interest in geographical discovery. Captain Davis contributes a second article on the Challenger, which is followed by one on the Pacific Railways of the South, i.e. the Southern United States. Two very interesting narratives are “A Visit to the Kuh-I-Khwajah in Sistan,” the place mentioned being a remarkable hill to the west of Naseribad, the chief city of Sistan; and “A Visit to Kuloja,” by Mr. Ashton Wentworth Dilke, the plain of Kuloja being “a continuation of the Seven Rivers country running p between the Ala Tau and Thian-Shan Mountains”—Mr. E. G. Ravenstein contributes a paper on “Elmina, and the Dutch Gold Coast;” which is followed by an article on the Polaris, the usual reviews, proceedings of societies, &c. There are Maps of the former Dutch Possessions on the Gold Coast, of the Amazonas in Peru, of the Pacific Railways of the South, and a Chart of the Challenger's course to the Cape de Verde Islands.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 8, 541 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008541a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008541a0