New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-07
GEOGRAPHTCAL.


exploration of that colony successfully begun by
Dr. Hoehstetter new expedition has been organized,
and Mr. Hasksy one Of its members, hft Nelson last
December for the South with the intention of crossing
the N.wZeand Alps and Of penetrating to the
of GRAY River where he would establish depot Of
suppiss Mr. Haast and the rest OF the party were to
follow the came route about the middle OF January,
making a careful survey Of the region passed over
They are especially instructed to investigate the CHAR
act.r NJ the extensive coal district discovered few
menths since in the vicinity Of Gray River. From this
stream the expedition is 10 follow the coast TO the
mouth of the Butler, ascend the Bulsr TO the lake
region. cross the mountains to West Wangann and
return to Nelson by way Of Cape Farewell Mean.
while, news as reached Europe and this country OF
an important outbreak among the unnamed native n-
babitan,s of the province Wbst effect this insurrec-
tionary movement may have upon the operations add
fate Of the exploring party cannot be known until the
arrival Of further and more detailed accounts OF the
rebellion.
DR. Buisthss lately communicated to the Geogrsphi
cal Society of Bombay careful obser 'atons on the
temperature Of the Rid Sea- without doubt the warm
est body Of water of its size the EARTH We are told
that exactly in its center lies watery region Of terri
bic heat This seat of high temperature is situated in
a tract rich in volcanic indications, and between l4'
ar 90 north latitude. Even in the Winter months
the water lie seldom less than s0o reache,S' in March
and April, and in May sometimes attains to 90.
September, however is the season Of greatest warmth
the temperature Of both air and water rising in that
month above bood-heat. At this time, person lean
ing over the bulwarks If vessel whose deck has been
lately cooled by shower of rain, experiences feeling
like that Of holcipg ih head above kettle OF boiling
water. In November 1886, the temperature of the
atmosphere being so that Of the water between IL
and go north latitude occasion reached 100.
The only Indian rivers heretofore regarded as
nayQable, have been the Brahmapuna, the Gauges
with some of It's tributaries the Hoogy and the Indus
But recent explorations have added TO this list the
Godavery, which, rising in the central mountainous
regions of the peninsula pous its waters through
broad delta into the Bay OF Bengal abOnt half way be-
tween Calcutta and Cape CONFORM. Capt Young early
last Summer in the dyest season OF the year. ascended
the river in the steamer Arthur Cotton to Koyicltha
miles above lis mouth, and in smaller steamer sue
ceeded without difficulty, in reaching Dumagutiem, at
distance Of l43 miles from the sea. In view of this
discovery are in progress to make the river
commercially useful and the English Government are
about establishing depots at Mahadeopure or Chinr
and Cocanada. Troops destined for Nagpoor will here
after be sent by way THE GOdavery.
Notwithstanding the supposed fnality of Sir Leo
rod NcClintoek recent Investigations, another Frank
lin exped ion on foot in England Mr.. Parker Snow,
a gentleman who bears the honorable reputation of
having predicted with considerable accuracy, the
locality in which the traces of the missing navigator
would be found proposes to leave England at the close
Of the gear with small vessel and picked crew.
Proceeding around Cape Horn, be will pass through
Behring'S Straits, and reach point little to the
southwest Of that attained by McCiatock. His object.
ike that of Hall who left New London some weeks
since is to fine further and obtain more precise
information concerning the fate Of the Of the
Erebus and Terror.
The great ordnance survey of India has been in
progress for long period aud duiUg many years has
been under the direction of Colonel Waugh whose
abors in terrestrial mensuration suffice to place him in
the sames scientific rank with the English Murchison,
or with our American Bache. The survey proceeds in
seven divisions and in each of tbese departments the
work is carried on in billy dstric at the rate OF about
$500 square miles, and on the plains at the rate of
nearly 900 square miles, annually. The yearly aver
age of territory surveyed and mapped throughout the
whole extent of the operation is about 10000 square
miles at an expense of about Is shings sterling per
square mile. 1t il anticipated that the abors of the
Commission will not be fully completed until near the
close Of the present century.
"A late letter from ZANZIBAR 10 the father Of AZ
brecht Roscher in Hamburg says; learn this m
ment that Salem ben Abdallah has arrived in Quioa.
lie reports Dr. RIOS: her safe and eonnd the shores
Of the Nyassa, engaged 10 making brief journeys, ex-
porug the Lake. and collecting stones ana plants The
man who told me this himself eturned with the cara
van which Roscber accompanied and Salem ben Alb
dalIah ld." Roscher appears to have struck the
Nyassa about $50 miles above its southern extremity
where DIR. Livingstone reached it.
Some observations Of singular character have
lately been made upon the growth of that remarkable
and useiul production of the East, the bamboo. A
plant in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh,
grew, under temperature Of from 60 to 20, SIX
inches dailya specimen of the Bam6usa eigaateo OF
Burmsh, which ranks as the monarch of the species
increased eighteen inches in twenty four hours. The
BGmJusa tllda of Bengal attans its full hight of
seventy feet in about month, thus growing al the
astonishing rate of an inch an hour
In st. Louis on the Senegal, a Geographical Board
has been formed, under the presidency of Mr. Faid-
herde, the Governor Of Senegambia, a man who has
already done much for the geography of Northwest
eTn africa, Sr of SeGssembia is 70 be constructed
oy the Board. Under its supervision two expeditions
have already started for the back country, under the
command Of Lieut. Pascal and Ensign Mage. One of
these parties viii 60 far as the Niger.
Ut liz curious fact that two lakes resembling those
erea, sheets of water lately discovered by Captains
Burton and Spike in Eastern Africa, are laid down
map published in the French edition Of Dsppers
African Amsterdam, 1856. Dapper puts the lakes
some degrees too far 10 the SOUTH but their relative