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Show FRE.MCH RAILROAD The Schema to Lay Track 09t the Crrat Unpi t. j Pajus, Oct. 1. Hews has just been ! receded from Mineuir Fnre.i, the f;-niou.- explorer, ho has lieeu cut rust-tt -by the French government willi the dangerous and rV.iIiculi task of mapping o'.tt a route for the gvp.it Fr-m-h railroad rail-road which is to cij-s tile Sahara de-serc Mr. F. Forou has aires.1 v von a ereat reputation sad a large fortune through his system of avto.-lau wel's, '. by which In' fists. made new oasis aVng the Wauy Rihr in the southern part ( Algeria, 1ms been absent for several months ou a tour of exploration far smith in ihe Sahara. He crossed ihe Algerian part of tho desert and advanced as far as I lie oases of Tidikelt, being the hrst i.iiropeaii since Sokillet's journey who has advanced ad-vanced so far south without exciting hostile ilenioiist rations. Forau's joiiruey is of groat import-aiu import-aiu a, for the proposed railroad that the French intend to bui'd across tho desert, lie ha- established the fact that from ltiskr.i to lnsalall there are no important sand duns, nor any serious seri-ous obstacles in the w ay of tl'aek laying. lay-ing. In fact he made a sort of survey for a railroad route in that repkm. lie w as able to take thirty-live observations for longitude and latitude and his explorations explora-tions will make a great improvement in the maps of this region. Ou his return north ho crossed a part of tho Sahara desert that has never been visited by a European. Jt is expected ex-pected Unit the fortunate results of tho Korean's expedition w ill lead at once to further surveys by the French in the Sahara, and that the first Step toward this enterprise will be au expedition to bring the hostile and fanatical Toua-regs. Toua-regs. who have so long been tho terror of the country, into subjection. When they nre taught that they will suffer severely for every murder they commit, and know that they cannot safely make forays over the country, there will be no obstacle in thn way of I pushing the railway clear across the desert to the Soudaii, ant a new era of French enterprise in North Africa wil begin. |