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GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

BY W. A. TAYLOR, M.A.

ASIA.

The Indian Surveys, 1890.—One of the most important tracts surveyed last year is the Kyaukse district in Burma, which is separated from the Mandalay district on the north by the fine Myit Nge River. A survey party accompanied Mr. Ney Elias, who was deputed to demarcate the Anglo-Siamese boundary, and mapped 9,620 square miles on the quarter-inch scale along the lower course of the Salween. The expedition to the Chin-Lushai country afforded another opportunity of mapping a remote region. Two columns, advancing one from Chittagong and the other from the Myit Tha valley, converged upon the mountainous country to the south of Manipur. A chain of triangles was run through eastwards to Haka on the Burmese side; 6,000 square miles of topography were completed on the quarterinch scale, and Lieut. Renny-Tailyour, who had charge of the survey work of the eastern column, covered about 3,000 square miles of previously unknown tracts. In Afghanistan and Baluchistan, triangulation, topography, and surveys, on various scales, were carried on under the supervision of Colonel Holdich. The party was divided into five sections, one of which was attached to Sir R. Sandeman's expedition to the Zhob valley. Work was also accomplished about Quetta, Pishin, the Toba plateau, and the Perso-Baluch frontier. In Persia, a distinguished native officer, Yusuf Sharif Khan, surveyed about 25,000 square miles of country on the scale of eight miles to one inch. Though without the advantage of a triangular basis, the work is, in general, accurate, as is shown by a comparison of the positions of certain well-known places with Colonel St. John's observations. Lastly, Colonel H. Tanner, who has recently retired after twenty-eight years' service, executed a large quantity of miscellaneous work in the Himalayas.-The Times, August

31st.

Proposed Russian Railway to Sarakhs.—Mr. George N. Curzon, in a letter to The Times, August 8th, states that the Russians intend to construct a branch-line from the Trans-Caspian Railway to the limits of the Russian territory. Three routes have been proposed: one from the station of Dushak to Sarakhs, a distance of 100 miles; another from Merv up the valley of the Murghab to Penjdeh; and the third, which will most probably be chosen, from Karri-bent, where the TransCaspian Railway crosses the Tejend, along the valley of that river to Sarakhs. This town is conveniently situated for the introduction of Russian goods into Persia and Afghanistan, being 100 miles from Meshed and 170 from Herat.

The Kuen Lun Mountains.-The Zeitschrift der Gesell. für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Bd. xxvi. No. 3, contains a long discussion on the orography of the Kuen Lun by Dr. Georg Wegener. It concludes with a description of the range as a whole. This range extends from the meridian of 75° E. long. to that of 118°, and from låt. 30° to 40° N., and has a length of 2390 miles, with a maximum breadth of about 500 miles. The area it covers may be roughly estimated at 425,000 square miles, or about double that of the German Empire. It consists of six parallel chains, running from east-south-east by east to north-north-west by west, of which the southern three are the longer and overlap one another, each extending more to the east than the one to the south of it. The fourth chain is broken by the great depression of Tsaidam, and the fifth has an outlying continuation in the Sung-Shan, near Kai-Fong. Each of these chains consists of a number of secondary