Identifier: scottishgeograph01scotuoft (find matches)
Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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itful. The country is well populated; the villages in the interior aredirtier than on the coast, though Porto Seguro (1200 inhabitants) hedescribes as the dirtiest of all. The inhabitants speak everywhere thesame language, though different dialects; and the scantiness of theirapparel is general. (Petermanns MitteUungen for June contains an excellent map ofTogo-land). PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The Council of the Scottish Geographical Society met in the Societys Rooms onTuesday, the 16th June, for the purpose of electing a Delegate to the forthcomingmeeting of the British Association in Aberdeen. Mr. Coutts Trotter, F.R.G.S., aMember of Council, was unanimously chosen. A donation was announced from Her Majestys Board of Works, through theSurveyor-General, of the one-inch Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland ; and a com-munication was read from Lieutenant Greely, the famous Arctic explorer, intimatinghis willingness to open the next session of the Society in November.
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GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 319 GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. EUROPE. The Island of Eigg.—In the Scottish Naturalist for April there is a pleasantsketch of the geological features and history of this striking island by Mr JamesDurham, F.G.S., who gives full credit to Dr. Archibald Geikie for his discovery ofthe old river-bed existing beneath the pitch-stone porphyry of the Scuir. A viewof the Scuir, from a photograph by W. N. Walker, illustrates the paper. Hydrographical Survey to the South of Orkney.—H.M.S. Triton, CommanderThomas H. Tim, is now engaged in a hydrographical survey in the district of thesouth isles of Orkney and the Pentland Firth. St. Petersburg a Seaport.—By the opening of the Maritime Canal, in the Bay ofCronstadt, the shallow upper extremity of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburgbecomes as much a seaport as London. Before this great work was accomplished,St. Petersburg, although quite close to the sea, did not reap the benefits of a seaport,because all large vessels were oblig

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