gtimtiftr. A DEFILE IN ABYSSINIA. The Times of India, November 18th, con tains extracts from the diary of Lt. Col. Phayre of Her majesty's service in India, who surveyed the routes over which an in vading army must pass to penetrate from the coast into Abyssinia. Ile thus describes the defile of Sooro, the most difficult one which he met. " We passed a cool refreshing night, and at daylight I sent the guides back, survey ing as they wont, to Koomaylo Wells, whilst Munzinger and I with our guides and 2 or 3 mules, proceeded to explore the remain ing difficulties of Sooro. After proceeding about 300 or 400 yards up the defile from our bivouacking ground, we arrived at the worst of the obstacles in the whole defile. It was caused by immense masses of granite, having in past ages, either been hurled down the torrent so as completely to block its passage, or by the torrent itself having cut through the overlying strata to the granite, and dislodged masses of it. These masses were piled, one on the top of the other, to a height of 50 feet, and a length up stream of 100 or 200 feet. In order to surmount this obstacle, the natives have constructed a 3 or 4 foot wide zigzag path of timber and large boulders by which their bullocks and asses ascend and descend. A drove of unladen bullocks, accompanied by a few armed Abyssinians, happened to be com ing down this formidable zigzag at the time, and it was curious to see how clearly and ;safely the animals picked out their way. [I should here state that several such par ties had been met in the lower part of the I s ass on the previous day en route to the .lains to cultivate tracts of land.] 1 was uite unprepared to believe that laden ani ,i, als could pass it, bat on our return, an our afterwards, we found a drove of 15 or '0 bullocks, each laden with a bag of salt eighing 180 to 200 lbs., preparing to strug •le up it; and afterwards again, when we etarned to Koomaylo, we found a drove I about 30 or 40 bullocks similarly laden, reparinga to carry their burdens the whole -ay to Senafe. I mention this to show bat the Sooro defile, even as it is, is made :se of by the natives of the country with aden cattle. But to return to our own :arty: we scrambled on foot up the zigzag • hence, to one more bad, but less difficult 'lace, was 5 minutes walk; beyond which, a few minutes more we reached the head Sooro defile, whence to Senafe, as before ated, was escribed to us to be just as ood a road as the one we had come over the first 8 miles from Koomaylo, though arrower. But for this defile I would have ushed on 8 or 10 miles further to a plain eyond the head of the defile, which, from e description given, would be a good place :r us to occupy as soon as we have troops fficient to hold it. Bat being on foot, 'thout supplies, and having moreover to turn to position No. 1 at M.ulkutto (judged bo 22 miles distant) during the day, I as compelled to retrace my steps. " I would here observe, that in my judg ent all that is required to make the Sooro efile passable for laden cattle is 100 Sap ers and a few hundred pounds of gun -owder. The ascent of the waterway of e defile is naturally easy. It is merely a consequence of its having been blocked p by the large fragments of granite re rred to that the sudden drop of 50 feet above oscribed occurs. The whole defile from ottom to top is between 24 and 3 miles •nb, and there are four bad obstacles in hat distance; the worst of which I have >escribed as the zigzag surmounting 2 or 3 asses of granite which happen to have odged, ono on the top of the other, in the 4.4 arrow waterway, which is not more than ,0 feet wide or thereabouts. A clever En gineer would very soon make a good 10 or 15 feet roadway past each of these 4 obsta cles, and the work is one which ought, I think, to be undertaken at once, as opening he most direct approach to a good part of .Abyssinia (Senate) from our position No. 1 on the sea coast." ELECTRICAL COUNTRIES In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. J. Fournet treats of a new and curious subject, viz , the electric state of certain regions. From the report of this -paper, in Galignani it appears that in the mountains of the basin of the Rhone and :their off-shoots, there are some spots distin i-guished for their evolution of electricity, 'which is sometimes very remarkable; while l',others, though apparently identical in our- Jace, are in a state of' absolute electric neu- Arality. Some very striking instances of ';this are quoted by M. Fournet. On the nierbt of August 11, 1854, when Mr. Black ;';well was on the Grands-Mulets, at an alti -Ando of 3,455 meters, the guide, F. Couttet. .,. ___... .•.... u., - zepeo La...ouva a, a game, JO • ..., ... - , i ;.on leaving the hut, perceived the surround `i'lig regions apparently on fire. He imme kldietely called to his companion to witness 'Alio scene, which was owing to a tempest. '„'Their clothes were literally covered with .o %electric sparks, and their fingers, when held , Aip, were phosphorescent. At that very ime Lyons was visited with a deluge of Wain, and the whole day. had been exceed ngly stormy. In 1841, as the same guide was ccompanying M. Chenal up Mont Blanc, 4. 4 they were overtook by a violent storm, : ;: end found themselves enveloped as it were, thunder and lightning. All the stones o f ~,. d rocks around them emitted electric i ames, and yet the summit of Mont Blanc, -, d the sky around it, was perfectly clear. 1867, Saussure, Jalabert, and Pietet were : , fr n the Breven, at an altitude of 2,520 me . re. They soon experienced a strange ricking sensation at their fingers' ends-on ltretching them out. This sensation became aitronger and stronger, and at length eledtric THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1868. sparks could be drawn from Jalabert's hat band, which was of gold lace, and from the knob of his cane. As the storm was raging above their heads, they had to descend some twenty-five or thirty meters, where the in fluence of this electricity was no longer felt. Another instance of this occurred on July 10,1863, when Mr. Weston and several other tourists ascended the Jungfrau, and there the snow itself, which fell dating the storm which overtook them, proved to be electric. A SINGULAR discovery has just been made at Mugu (Saone-et-Loire), by workmen engaged in digging the foundations of a railway shed. At a depth of about nine meters, in a stratum of sandy clay and fer. ruginous oxides, remains of proboscidians (elephants, rhinoceroses, &c.), were brought to light, comprising several back teeth and a formidable tusk in large fragments, which, on being put together, constituted a length of seven feet. The depth at which this was Joun,d was still six meters higher than the level of the most considerable inundations of the Dhoune, and in an undisturbed stra tum. So far, there is nothing absolntely extraordinary; kut who would have thought of finding, underneath the, bed containing , these fossils of the tertiary period, an aque duct of the most primitive kind and of human workmanship ? Yet such was the case, the only instance of the kind on re cord. It is explained by M. Tremaux, who relates the circumstance, by supposing, what seems indeed to have been the fact, that the tertiary fragments above alluded to have been washed into the trench by a violent inut.dation, and thus filled up the aqueduct. The latter is about 80 centimeters in depth 60 centimeters broad at the bottom, and only 40 in breadth at the upper surface. 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