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BY J. W. REDHOUSE, HON. MEMB. R.S.L.

(Read March 26th, 1880.)

A CONSIDERATION of the map and geology of the Old World, of Europe, Asia, and Africa, assisted by such fragmentary traditions of upheavals or subsidences as have been more or less corruptly preserved and handed down to us, makes it appear not improbable that this portion of the earth's surface must, at some prehistorical date, have consisted in several widely separated continents or archipelagos, each of which had already undergone divers previous changes, by upheavals, volcanic eruptions, degradations, and denudations, alternating with dislocations and partial or total submergences, from whence had arisen various local legends of universal deluges.

Each one of those continents or archipelagos was tenanted with a flora and fauna entirely or partially peculiar to itself; just as were America, Australia, and New Zealand, when latterly discovered by European explorers. Each was also, apparently, inhabited by its own special, more or less sharply differentiated, race or races of men. How these had originated we need not here inquire. There is less difficulty, perhaps, on the whole, in a polygenetic, than in a monogenetic view of the question.

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