ORIGIN OF BERMUDA 
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Professor Suess, that a subsidence of land amounting to 
10,000 feet has taken place between the island of Rhodes and 
the mainland of Syria in post-Pliocene times, whereas marine 
deposits of late Pliocene age occur in the southern Andes at 
a height of 5,000 feet, is it really such an unlikely theory that 
the supposed ancient belt of land connecting Bermuda with 
a southern land-mass has subsided to a similar extent within 
comparatively recent geological times ? I need not dwell any 
longer on this problem. When I come to deal with the 
Antilles and the origin of their fauna further allusions to it 
will be made. 
