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Show SEARCHING THE HIDDEN SPOTS. There is a general, feeling that tho geographical problems of tho centuries havo been 3olvod, and that nothing more remains of the earth's surface to bo explored. Tho finding of the sources of tho Nile, (ratifying old and' discredited discred-ited mapH,) achievements in tho arctic and tho antarctic, havo been spectacular spectacu-lar and havo left tho impression that thoro is nothing more to learn geographically geograph-ically about the earth. That this view is erroneous has been amply provod by discoveries of various kinds in. Africa, by the finds of Svcn Hedin in central Asia, and by the efforts ef-forts of cxplorors in other parts of the world. It is Tocentlj' distinctly disproved dis-proved by the discover' on the west African coast by an exploring party sent out by the Governor of Fcdcratod Nigeria, Sir Frederick Lugard, under tho command of Lieutenant Hughes of the English Navy, of elevated land and a good inlet. The west African coast has been known as a fovor breeding breed-ing horror all the way from the Sahara, to German Southwest Africa, something like 2000 miles; it is a plague coast where white mon's lives woro always in peril through fevers and malaria; but this expedition has discovered in South Nigeria a navigable channel in the Bonny River, which is provod to bo 70 feet deep, tho current running botween cliffs 45 feot high, and said to afford points of location absolutely free from the malaria which is so prevalent generally gen-erally upon that long coast. At once it was determined to build a town there, and to make it the terminus of tho British Brit-ish railway of Nigeria aud the coal distributing dis-tributing center for all west Africa. ' It is expected that with this favorable favor-able location from a sanitary standpoint, stand-point, tho British medical officials, .guided by tho lessons of the American sanitation work at Panama, will bo able to build a town that will bo salubrious and that white men can livo in with such immunity and comfort as thoy are now enabled to livo in in Panama. It is a great discovery, immensely more valuablo than the discoveries cither in the arctic or the antarctic, and it appears to havo been made with tho minimum of cost and through a sort of fortuitous accident that is both surprising sur-prising and agreeable. This incident may lead to further discovorios that may locato yet more salubrious points on the west African coast, which has heretof ore been held to bo absolutely unfit for tho residence of white men. |