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THE new number of the Geographical Society's periodical contains Mr. Keith Johnston's notes on “Native Routes in East Africa, from Dar-es-Salaam towards Lake Nyassa,” accompanied by a very interesting map, in which are embodied the particulars gleaned by Mr. Johnston from native travellers. This paper is followed by Prof. Geikie's lecture on geographical evolution, of which an abstract appeared in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 490, and several pages are next devoted to a not very happy attempt to present the salient geographical features of Mr. RyalL's account of his explorations in Western Thibet, which forms one of the appendices of the General Report of the Operations of the Survey of India for 1877–8. Among the geographical notes we find intimations that the science lectures are to be discontinued, and that the Council have arranged to provide means of instruction and training for intending travellers. There is also a note of Mr. M. C. Doughty's visit to El-Hejjer, a reported Troglodyte city in North-west Arabia, which disposes of singular fables that have been accepted by some learned Orientalists.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 20, 226–227 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020226b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020226b0