Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — Cameron's Great African Walk. [ARTICLE]

Cameron's Great African Walk.

ThisJgallfcf' ydung'bftfcer traveled on footal®Btaneflof;»iOffi) miles, with very •Ihtlia mcMMitorifeO of climate, through forestA marshes and □ujM'les. enduririg hardnfever grifte .-way. Lieut. Cameron kept his eyes well about him, and the observations vriiich lie made, noth astronomical and in relation to the physical character of the country, are of extraordinary value. The registered observations he has brought home, and which are now being computed, at the Greenwich Observatory, promise to be of the most important character. They are astonishingly numerous, elaborate and accurate; and I haye expectation that the result of flieir computation will be that we shall find hiid down a defined line from one ocean to the other across twenty degrees of longitude, Which will serve as*a basis, a flxea mathematical basis, for all future geographical discoveries in equatorial Amea. The observations with which he has furnished us and which are now being compute^—for latitude, longitude and elevation—-number nearly 5,000. Naval officers and surveyors will understand the extraordinary minuteness and assiduity with which he did his work when I state that, in order to’ determine the longitude Of some particular positions, he took 38 many as 130 or 140 lunar observations in one spot.—gir Henry Rawlinson. « - -- - - ■ - w- a