New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-17
GEOGRAPHfCAL.

Parker Snow has been compelled 10 abandon h'
fayorite idea of an expedition by way OF behrng
Straits in search OF further relics OF the EreouS ana
Terror the fund subscribed being insufficient Tor suci
rmrose lie row proposes a wel-equpped boat party,
20 leave England in the early Spring, and reach hlnS
Williams Land from the east. The sum already COL
lcctcd " III amply suffice TO iit ont such party. Inc
preliminary expenses necessary in laying Capt SHOWS
/ ,;cN, before the public have all been borne by an
Euglfh lady, whore name is not given but the London
journals s,ate that it is not Lady Franklin
! --Ilf,ler. Iceland was lately the scene a most
reu,otkable mirage. Several ships were seen sailing
! through tie air in line apparently some miles III ex-
tents some appeared at anchor near iotrefs built on
e,oek oilers seemed to approach 40 near the coast
bat the suectatos could see through the clear atmos
! tlere the images of sailors at work in the rigging.
Mr.. r. Won Heuglin, who proposes TO vist Waday,
in Central Africa in order to ascertain definitely the
circumstances attending Voges DEATH has lately pub
li.h,d tle flint part of account Of voyage made
along II coast of the Red Sea- and through the lands
| Of tie somali in 1857. While Austrian Consul at
Elartoum Mr. Won Heuglin found il necessary 70 visit
Cairo Wien about to return he resolved to pursue
eircuitous course by way of the Straits Of Babel
Uardeb rather than to follow the route already familiar
10 him up the Nile and across the Deserts Of korosAo
and BaiuGa. In company with fellow-countryman,
he accordingly left Cairo May IL, and ascendcd the
Nile IA far 10 Denderah. Having made brief excur-
eien 70 the ruins Of Thebes and Luxor the party re-
| urped TO Keneh, on the eastern eide of the river,
neaIly opposite Denderab. Here, on the l7th
| of June they took leave Of the Nile, and turned
| their steps toward BE Red Sea. For the first
| day or two the route lay through a pleas
ant region, dotted with pllm-shaded Arabic vii
aees Then came a strip of desert, two days journey
| in extent followed by chalk hills and mountains OF
fandstole and porphyry. Through the long narrow
Tasses ard picturesque scenery OF there mountains the
Iartv def,ented to the coast AT Cosseir. This town,
built within few miles of the rite Of the ancient Phi
| otera lies in 90 = n. lat, is inhabited chiefly by
| Egyptians and Arabs, contains many bazsITs, two
nofques and small fort, and derives some CONNER
| cial inheritance from the fact OF its being
pou 81 expectation for the fertile gram
region of tie valley of the Nile, and the place where
many of the Egyptian pilgrims embark for Jiddah on
tier way to Mecca. At this point Mr.. Won deugin
and his Ianon engaged an Arabic vessel IN which
they followed the coast of the Red SEA to It's
junction with the Indian Ocean. Among the towns at
which they touched were Sariakin, in lat. 49, 81 N,
ong 81 "a f., the capital Of the province OF the same
name and containing "a mixed population of 5000 TO
COO people and Massaua in the gulf Of Arko, whose
nl sbitms speak a Scientific dialect They visited also
| tie Archipelago OF Dahak, a group of islands OF vol
canic formation the seat of important pearl fisheries,
Which ts the eastern portion Of the Red Sea- between
| - 50 and To- 80 n. lat and between 80 % and
| 400 T. long The largest Of this insular group,
Dalak Il Kebir, hGs been supposed by some authors
| TO be tie Ophir Of Scripture. South of this the
African coast in inhabited by the DomhOido-Danakil,
scmi.non adic tribe resembling the Eastern Abyssln-
| ans. Crossing TIE fea, Mr.. Won HeugLn made a
| slort sojourn at Mocha, whose expectation OF
| coffee rince the English took possession of Alden
has diminished by eighty per cent Tie transportation
OF tie Nicola coffee Alden by caravan IL preferred in
! order to avoid tie eyactionr of the Turkish Custom
House officials Tie Island of NAHUM or Perrin Is de-
uted Ly he German traveller ~ lying at the
es rart OF he Straits Of BaJ-eNlandeb, and command
| ing tie commerce of the Red Sea. BY the exertons
OF England It sfast becoming second Gibraltar. Tue
view nom it's lights, formed by the debris Of an extinct
vol, ano extends TO the Arab mountains the east
and the North African ranger the west. On the 18th
of September Mr. IIeuglin dropped anchor in the
! barbor Of Tediura the capital of Adail whence he
pursued lis Journey, aciOss the country of the baIbr
OILS Somali, to Khanoum. His pleasing narrative
abounds in descriptions OF Greek, Roman and Arabic
ruins of mountain and COAT scenery of the trade aud
population of the towns which he visited and of the
character of the different which frequent the
shores of the Red Sea- In natural history topography
philOogy and statistics he to be equally AT home
la Tour da Monde is the title of proiusely Illus
tIated geographical Journal which has been published
weekly at Paris since the beginning OF the present
year under the direction OF Edouard Charlton. The
object OF the periodical il to give popular
| counts Of Late voyages Several we-Anown members
of tie French Geographical Society among it, con-
! tritutcr.
| Two extra Numbers of Pctcrmann's MtthcilRRgcH
have been lately issued. One of them contains mar
/ rayc by Dr. Barth OF journey which that dstin-
gus d Traveller made in 1853 from TebiLond through
tie northern portion Of Asia Minor Scutari Beside
tie interesting typographical description of the route
uayerscd DR.. Barth gives much novel archaeological
information concerning the ancient Poaus Cappadocia
Galtia and Pbrygia The other brochure, which, like
| the Just mentioned is illustrated with maps by
PeeuraIm, IL the account Of journey across the An.
des by Won Tschudi whose works On Peru have been
widely circulated, also performed in 1855 Starting
from Cordoya in the Argentine Confederation the au-
thor passed through Catamsnca, Santa Maria San
Pedro de Atacoma to Cobija Bolivian port on the
! Pacific.
In some recent statistics Of earthquakes BY Prof
Ansted tie English geologist is stated that the re-
ported number Of these phenomena from the earliest
ages to 1850 is over 600 From 1900 TO 1900 there oc
cuned 2,s04 earthquakes and from 1900 to 1850 1910
The average for the present century is about one a
week. OF the number annually occurring oDly about
in forty IL Of such violence as to cause destruction
OF life or property. Prof Anted contends that te suu