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ber of regions proposed by him is seven, the first being called 

 the Boreal Region, divisible, first, into the portion within the 

 arctic circle, including Greenland ; second, North America ; 

 third, Central America, with the Antilles ; fourth, the chain 

 of the Andes, with Chile, Patagonia, and the archipelagos to 

 the southward ; fifth, Europe and Asia south of the arctic 

 circle and north of the Pyrenees and to the Western Hima- 

 layas, thus extending from the British Islands to Northern 

 Japan ; sixth, the country adjacent to the Mediterranean, in- 

 cluding Africa north of the Atlas, and extending eastward to 

 Middle China and Southern Japan ; seventh, Mongolia, Thi- 

 bet, and Chinese Tartary. 



The second, or the Columbian Region, including South 

 America minus the portions already referred to, is divided, 

 first, into the forest countries east of the Andes ; second, the 

 pampas territory ; third, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and the Galapa- 

 gos. 



The third, or the Ethiopian Region, includes Africa south 

 of the Atlas and of Egypt. This is divided into the countries 

 extending from Senegal to Nubia and Arabia, and including 

 that around the head of the Persian Gulf, etc., as well as the 

 depression of the Dead Sea and the Valley of the Jordan ; 

 second, Negroland ; third, Southern Africa ; fourth, Hindos- 

 tan proper, Deccan, and the country to the northern half of 

 Ceylon. 



The fourth, or Lemurian Region, includes Madagascar, the 

 Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, etc. 



The fifth is the Australian Region, embracing the Indo- 

 Chinese peninsula, the southern watershed of the Himalayas, 

 Lower Bengal, the Philippine Islands, Hainan, Formosa, etc. 

 This includes five subdivisions, which, perhaps, it is not nec- 

 essary to enumerate in detail. 



The sixth, or Melanesian Region, embraces, first, Australia 

 minus Yorke Peninsula, part of Queensland, and Tasmania ; 

 second, the islands of Papua, New Britain, and New Ireland, 

 Ceram, and the Moluccas, as also Yorke Peninsula and the 

 eastern half of Queensland, or the main land of Australia ; 

 third, the islands of Celebes, Lombok, Timor, etc. ; and, fourth, 

 the antarctic region, including Ker^uelen Land. 



The seventh, or Polynesian Region, embraces, first, New 

 Zealand and adjacent islands ; and, second, Polynesia, com- 



