fissures, from which flickering flames were southwards to Sergiopol, where he was deleaping, showed that the lava was red hot a tained three weeks owing to the southern road very short distance below the surface. The being blocked by snow. He afterwards went height he found to be 19,600 feet. The party remained at the top for twenty-six consecutive hours, sleeping about 130 feet below the loftiest point. At first they had felt the effects of the low pressure of the atmosphere, and again, as at Chimborazo, took chlorate of potash with good effect. All signs of mountain sickness had passed away before they commenced back. the descent, and did not recur during the journey. Nearly five months later Mr. to Kulja for a short time, and he also made some excursions to Issyk-kul and other places of interest. In the course of the discussion which followed the paper, Mr. Ashton Dilke, the only other Englishman who has visited Kulja, gave an interesting account of his experiences in that region a few years Whymper returned to Chimborazo, and from M. TARRY, a member of the French Com a second reading of the barometer at 14.028 inches, with a temperature of 15 degrees Fahrenheit, he made the height 20,489 feet, the mean of the two readings giving 20,517 feet. While on the side of Chimborazo he witnessed a magnificent eruption of Cotopaxi, ashes rising in a column 20,000 feet above the rim of the crater and then spreading over an area of many miles. Prof. Bonney had submitted the ash to microscopic examination, and found that the fineness varied from 4,000 to 25,000 particles to the grain in weight, and from observation of the area over which the ash fell Mr. Whymper calculated that at least two million tons must have been ejected in this one eruption. the International African Association. In and the river mission for Trans-Saharan Communications, is stated to have discovered in the south of Wargla the ruins of a large city called Cedrada, which had been entombed by sands of the desert. This city is placed in the Valley of Wed Mya, and in the vicinity of a number of sources which in former centuries watered thousands of palm trees. Orders have been sent to procure a set of sounding apparatus, and it is expected a large quantity of pure water will be extracted from the earth. M. Tarry published an appeal to the local papers in order to obtain from the Government the foundation of a colony in this remote region. SAN ANITARY HOUSES.-The Society of Arts propose to award medals for plans showA TELEGRAM was read at a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences ing the best sanitary arrangements in houses from M. de Brazza, who has been conducting hibited in the Society's rooms, Adelphi, in built in the metropolis, such plans to be exan exploration in the region of the Ogowe June, 1881, and to be sent in on or before 12th and Congo, West Africa. Quite recently a French station has been founded in the upper for the best sanitary arrangements carried out May, 1881. One silver medal will be awarded course of the former river in connection with and in satisfactory working in a house let out in July last, M. de Brazza informs the Academy is paid. One silver medal for the best sanitary tenements to artisans for which a weekly rental he reached the Congo from this station on the Ogowe, between the river Inpaka Mpania arrangements in actual satisfactory working in a house of the yearly rental of from £40 or Lawson Afrisi." Gaining the favor of King Makoko he pacified the tribes less to about £100 in value. One silver medal on the right bank of the Congo, and peaceful-isfactory working in a house of the yearly rental for the best sanitary arrangements in actual satly descended the river in a canoe. On October 3 he founded the station of Ntamo Ncoma houses must be open to the inspection of the of £200 and upwards to any amount. The on land ceded by King Makoko on the right bank of the Congo. M. de Brazza surveyed be guided by the suggestions of plans for main judges, who, in considering their award, will the route between the Ogowe and Congo; it is twelve marches in length, over a plateau of an under the Public Health Act, 1875. The sewerage, drainage and water supply, made average height of 800 meters. The country houses must have been in actual occupation is healthy, and the population dense and within the last three months, and a certificate peaceful. In November last M. de Brazza arrived at Mdambi Mbongo, the advanced post must be given by the occupiers, on a printed of Mr. Stanley, whom he met, and with whom form, stating the satisfactory working of all he reached the latter's headquarters at Vivi on November 12. If the new station can be maintained and victualed, it is no doubt well chosen as a starting point for further discovery, for both north and south of it, there are large regions of which he knew nothing. A the of last, Mr. E. Delmar Mor T the meeting of the Geographical Socie gan gave some account of his journey last year to Semiretchia and the town of Kulja. 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