Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . h dogmaticscholarship has so much delighted forseveral centuries; but the existence of marine geography. That part of theocean between the thirtieth degree ofsouth latitude and the equa- shoal charactertor bounded east and west andindS^by Madagascar and the ocean-eightieth meridian from Greenwich isvery shoal. Should we take our standon the island of Mauritius or Rodriguez,we should see around us a vast area of 17
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . h dogmaticscholarship has so much delighted forseveral centuries; but the existence of marine geography. That part of theocean between the thirtieth degree ofsouth latitude and the equa- shoal charactertor bounded east and west andindS^by Madagascar and the ocean-eightieth meridian from Greenwich isvery shoal. Should we take our standon the island of Mauritius or Rodriguez,we should see around us a vast area of 174 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. shallow sea. Even beyond the bordersof this the waters are not deep like thoseof the profound Pacific. A compara-tively slight recession of the ocean suchas we may well suppose to occur in oneof those secular movements to whichthe fluid surface of the earth, has been these may be mentioned with confidence the distribution of animals and plants on the two sides of the Indian Evidences of ocean. The birds of Mad agascar and Malay peninsula are of a common type. Certain species of palm trees, which are former existenceof such a conti- those of the nent-. LANDSCAPE IN BELUCHISTAN.—DEPARTURE OF THE BROWN RACES. many times subjected in the past, andwhich we know to be actively in opera-tion— though slowly—-at the presenttime, would be sufficient to lay bare acontinent much larger than Australia inthe region betwreen the Malay archipel-ago and the eastern coast of Africa. The former existence of such a conti-nent is attested by many proofs. Among disseminated with great difficulty byseed or transplanting, are common inSingapore, the Moluccas, New Guinea,Australia, and the western islands ofPolynesia. Botanists of great reputa-tion have insisted that this distributioncould not have been made witliout a con-tinuous land-bridge among the countrieswhere this species of palms is found. PLACE OF THE BEGINNING.—LEMURIA, 175 In like manner the conclusions of
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