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nor is it free from inaccuracies. The sources of information are in many 

 cases very meagre. 



All the reasons for the classification of each example are not dis- 

 cussed ; and many of the most important features are omitted, because 

 they already have been considered. Under examples of depression is 

 given some idea of the various kinds of lands which were depressed, and 

 also some hint as to the different stages of development which had been 

 reached before the new cycle was inaugurated. 



Uplift: Youth. — The coast of the Argentine Republic (page 162). 



Texas (p. 89), and other parts of the Atlantic and Gulf plains. 



Maine (C. S. and G. S. sheets), (pages 158, 185, 188). 



Corsica (Fr., 261, 263, 265). 



Parts of Attica (page 186). 



Probably the coast of Brazil from cape Benevento to cape Frio should be here 

 included. The ciiarts sliow offshore bars enclosing lagoons (H. 0., 470, 471), 

 probably following uplift. 



Also from cape Santa Marta to Tramandaky bar (H. 0., 477). 



The soutliern half of Lower California, Mexico, appears on its western slope to 

 liave a coastal plain, described as " low hills and rising plains," with offshore bars 

 enclosing narrow lagoons (H. O., 621). 



The western coast of Mexico, east of the gulf of California, also shows a similar 

 coast (H. O., 621 and 622 as far south as San Bias). 



A third example in the same general region is seen on the west coast of Guate- 

 mala, extending a little on either hand into Mexico and San Salvador (H. O., 931, 

 932). The detail of bar and lagoon is shown on the chart (H. 0., 873). The lack 

 of definite information makes a positive statement in regard to this region unsafe. 

 A study of the maps indicates that they belong in this stage. Mr. J. J. Williams 

 says in regard to this region : " The tertiary clays, gravels, and beds of detritus 

 which cover up so much of the Isthmus along the line of survey, extend on tlie 

 north side almost to the summit-level, and the base of the hills which lie east and 

 west of it. Those deposits being found pretty uniformly spread, even to the depth 

 of thirty feet in some places, as at a point north of the sunnnit-level, and between 

 it and the river Almoloya, are evidences of the slow and tranquil elevation of this 

 portion of the Isthmus above tiie sea." * 



Uplift.: Adolescence. — Southern New Jersey (page 184), and other portions of 

 the Atlantic coastal plain. 



Uplift: il/atH;v«y. — Eastern Italy (page 186). The southeastern and southern 

 coast of the "toe" of Italy (Ital., 246, 247, 255, 263, 264). 



The southern coast of Sicily (Ital., and Sicily, 265, 266, 271, 272, 275, 276). 

 The Tertiary strata are considerably deformed and therefore the shoreline is not 

 as straight as in the case of a more simple coastal plain. In a few places along 

 this line tlie development has hardly reached maturity, as for example west of 

 Pozzallo (276). 



Northwestern France (page 241). 



* The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, J. G. Barnard, New York, 1852, 149. 



