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ORIGIN OF LIFE IN AMERICA 
evidences can only be due to the fact that a portion of the 
Pacific coast of North America was connected by land in Mio¬ 
cene times with Sakhalin and Japan, whereas the “ Kuro- 
shiwo ” flowed northward between these islands and the main¬ 
land of Asia. In the subsequent chapters the evidence which 
has led me to these conclusions will be more fully dealt with. 
