Letter

Heap to Wm. Hunter, June 14, 1875

Author

Heap

Recipient

Wm. Hunter

Date

June 14, 1875

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 38. Mr. Heap to Mr. Hunter.

Consulate of the United States, Tunis, June 14, 1875. (Received July 8.)

No. 210.]

Sir: A scientific commission, in charge of the Marquis Antinoré, a distinguished African traveler, and Captain Baratieri, of the engineer corps of the Italian army, has been sent by the Royal Geographical Society of Italy to make a careful and thorough survey of the basin in the Great Desert south of the Aures range, and to examine the barrier which separates it from the sea at Gabes. Another party was sent some time since by the French government to make a similar survey south of Biskra, in the province of Algeria. It is how likely that this interesting question will soon be definitively solved. It is still thought, however, that the obstacles to the creation of an inland sea at this point are insuperable.

I am, &c.,

G. H. HEAP.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.