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*1* Probably 20d 25'. I. A. *2* Probably 20d 10'. I. A. *3* Probably 28d 56'. I. A. *4* Probably 31d 46' 30". I. A. *5* Probably 31d 56'. I. A. *6* Probably 35d 10' 15". I. A. *7* Probably 36d 56' 8". I. A. Livingstone's Travels in South Africa.* * 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa'. By David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. 1 vol. 8vo. Harper and Brothers.
Nearly two years since another friend gave up his life for his country; nearly two years since another mother in England learned that her son had been killed in a "slight diversion on the Ypres salient"! But it was thus that he would have wished to die. A servant brought me a note to my dug-out: "Come down and have some lunch in trench 35D," it ran, "in C Company officers' dug-out.
It flows on these three Bars S.E. by E. 1/4 E. about Eight of the Clock, unless there is a hard Gale of Wind at N.E. which will make it flow two hours longer; but as soon as the Wind is down, the Tides will have their natural Course: A hard Gale at N. or N.W. will make the Water ebb sometimes 24 hours, but still the Tide will ebb and flow, tho' not seen by the turning thereof, but may be seen by the Rising of the Water, and Falling of the same, Lat. 35d 20".
Eitel says, "The Taxila of the Greeks, the region near Hoosun Abdaul in lat. 35d 48s N., lon. 72d 44s E." But this identification, I am satisfied, is wrong. So far he may be correct; but the Takshasila of Fa-Hsien was on the other, or western side of the Indus; and between the river and Gandhara.
It lies S.W. from Hatteras Inlet. Lat. 35d 8". You have a fair Channel over the Bar, and two Fathom thereon, and a good Harbour in five or six Fathom to come to an Anchor. Your Course over this Bar is almost N.W. Lat. 34d 44".
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