. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ocean," as Fleurieu calls the united Indian and Pacific waters, will be found to completely flood this immense semicircle. The total sweep of this semicircle of inner shores exceeds 24,000 miles, that is to say, the length of the terrestrial circum- ference at the equator. Edward Suess has brought into hill relief the striking contrast presented by the Atlantic and Pacific,.the former presenting no lofty coast range round its periphery, while the latter washes with its abysmal waters the very foot of the encircling escarpments. But is this writer not m
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ocean," as Fleurieu calls the united Indian and Pacific waters, will be found to completely flood this immense semicircle. The total sweep of this semicircle of inner shores exceeds 24,000 miles, that is to say, the length of the terrestrial circum- ference at the equator. Edward Suess has brought into hill relief the striking contrast presented by the Atlantic and Pacific,.the former presenting no lofty coast range round its periphery, while the latter washes with its abysmal waters the very foot of the encircling escarpments. But is this writer not mistaken in * Total oceanic area, according to Kriimmel Great ocean, with Atlantic and Arctic Seaa Ai'ea of dry lands .... 148,000,000 square miles. 112,000,000 57,000,000 ,, .,
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