. Scottish geographical magazine. au ascent of Mt. Victoria (4600 feet) from this station. Thismountain has previously been ascended only by very few natives andstill fewer Europeans. Pictures were then shown of native sea-goingcanoes with their large lateen sails, also of the whole process of manu-facturing native cloth from the paper mulberry, and of native burying-places and burial customs. Finally slides were shown of native fire-walking. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. ETJEOPE. River Erosion —By the courtesy of M. Charles Rabot, Secretary of La Societech Geogr iphie, we are enabled to reproduce this
. Scottish geographical magazine. au ascent of Mt. Victoria (4600 feet) from this station. Thismountain has previously been ascended only by very few natives andstill fewer Europeans. Pictures were then shown of native sea-goingcanoes with their large lateen sails, also of the whole process of manu-facturing native cloth from the paper mulberry, and of native burying-places and burial customs. Finally slides were shown of native fire-walking. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. ETJEOPE. River Erosion —By the courtesy of M. Charles Rabot, Secretary of La Societech Geogr iphie, we are enabled to reproduce this month a very interesting illustra-tion of river erosion by the Valserine, a tributary of the Rhone. The illustrationis taken from an article by M. Emile Chaix-Du Bois, which appeared in LaGeographic for December 15, and is one of several contained in the article. TheVa1 serine jo:ns the Rhone at Bellegirde, and about two kilometres to the north ofthis town the river traverses an exposed surface of hard limestone, which affords. Part of tbe channel of the Yalserine, to show pot-holes, 156 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. a beautiful example of fluviatile erosion. The whole expanse of denuded rockmeasures 41 metres in breadth, and it is so studded with pot-holes that the foot-bridge in the vicinity has received a local name signifying bridge of figure shows not the chief channel but a secondary one, the main current nowrunning in a canyon at the right or western bank. This secondary channel, as thefigure shows, is close to the left bank, and the whole area between the two canyonsis worn out into pot-holes and minor gorges. The whole affords a most interest-ing example of erosion. It is only necessary to add that although the river isordinarily of modest dimensions, it is subject to great flooding in spring andautumn. Salt-Deposits in the Caspian.—An expedition under Colonel Spindler hasrecently explored the Gulf of Kara-bughaz, a large outlying portion of theCasp
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