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The value of the discoveries by the Basilisk in New Guinea are beginning to attract the notice they deserve. The Basilisk arrived in England early in December last, and the information, which has hitherto been referred to only in parcels, -will soon receive authoritative publication. The Times summarises the services performed in a cruise of four years. Twelve hundred miles of coast line have been surveyed, in. eluding twelve good harbors and several navigable rivers. One hundred islands have been added to the map, and a new and shorter route from Australia to China laid down on the chart. The naming of the two rival mountains, eleven thousand feet high, on the northeast coast of New Guinea, “Gladstone” and “Disraeli,” is looked upon as a capital joke, and excites as much interest in London as all the other achievements of the explorer's. The demand for information is never satisfied, and ample as has been the work done, there is much grumbling that the biology of the regions visited has been neglected. There is aU the more work for future expeditions.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4366, 18 March 1875, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4366, 18 March 1875, Page 2

Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4366, 18 March 1875, Page 2

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