. Scottish geographical magazine. Aiabian name (Green Mountain) points to a time when the surfaceof the mountain was more fully clothed. If minerals exist, they are not workedby the inhabitants, who are farmers or sheplierds. Wild animals are few, butwolves, hyenas, wild goats, ibex, lynxes, wild cats, and more doubtfully leopards,are said to exist. In Nakhl, a town in the range of the same name, thermal springs occur, andare greatly esteemed by the inhabitants for their curative properties. The authorfound the hottest to have a temperature of 106° F. ; none of the others exceeded104° F. In th
. Scottish geographical magazine. Aiabian name (Green Mountain) points to a time when the surfaceof the mountain was more fully clothed. If minerals exist, they are not workedby the inhabitants, who are farmers or sheplierds. Wild animals are few, butwolves, hyenas, wild goats, ibex, lynxes, wild cats, and more doubtfully leopards,are said to exist. In Nakhl, a town in the range of the same name, thermal springs occur, andare greatly esteemed by the inhabitants for their curative properties. The authorfound the hottest to have a temperature of 106° F. ; none of the others exceeded104° F. In this town, as in Semail, cloth-weaving forms an important Semail, which is far down the valley, dates are extensively grown, especiallythe Fard variety, which are sent to the Muskat market for export. — TheGeographical Journal, xviii. (1901), No. 5, pp. 465-98, 1 map. The new North-West Frontier Province of India.—It is understood that theraison detre of the new frontier province in India, of which we reproduce a. 8KETCIi-MAP SIIOWIXO THE LIMITS OF THEXBW NOKTH-WEST FUOXTIEll IUUVINCE OF INDIA. sketch, was the decision of the Imperial Government to retain in its own handsthe direction of the frontier policy, which up to lately had been in the hands of the 44 SCOTTISH OEOfJRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. Government of the Punjab. As the new province is now constituted, the (JhiefCommissioner will be under the direct control of the Foreign (Secretary in Calcuttaand Simla. AFRICA. Geology of Transvaal.—M. G. A. F. Molengraalf has published a memoir onthis subject, illustrated by a map and figures. The rocks throughout arestratified beds of primary age, possibly Irecambrian or Silurian, traversi<l byintrusions of granite, and much folded and fractured. The auriferous depositsoccur throughout these l)eds in (juartz veins filling up the fissures of the rocks, andare consequently luost abundant in the regions where faults are most frequent(cf. the mines of IJarberton an
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