THE MALDIVE AND LACCADIVE GROUPS, WITH NOTES ON OTHER 
CORAL FORMATIONS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN (continued). 
By J. Sranuey Garpiner, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 
and Balfour Student of the University of Cambridge. 
(With Plates VIII.—XII. and Figs. 25—33.) 
CONTENTS. 
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Cuapter V. THe Matpive and LaccapIvE ARCHIPELAGOES : ° 0 : . : 147 
Topography—Soundings—I. Tue Laccapive ARcHIPELAGO—Atolls—Submerged Banks 
—Land—Depths—II. Tue Matpive ArcuipELaco—Addu (decrease in Depth 
and special Conditions)—Fua Mulaku—Suvadiva (great Size and Changes in 
Topography)—Soundings in Central Basin and between Banks— A _ single 
Plateau—Topography of the Banks—Diversity of Form—More perfect Atolls 
to the south—Depths of Lagoons—Position and Amount of Land. 
Cuaprer VI. Norru Mautos Bank . - : . 6 : : : . : c 158 
Mahlosmadulu—Elevation—Piling up of Sand—Kenurus (Elevation and History)— 
Fainu (extensive Erosion)—Inguradu—Hurudu—Wa-faro (Cooper Island and 
Formation of Land)—The Coral Limestone (Amount of Elevation)—Changes 
of Reefs and Land—Maduwari—Washing away of Land and Formation of 
Faro or small Atolls—Characters of Lagoon Reefs (boring Organisms, open 
and closed Banks, Growth and Erosion)—Reefs against Passages (Growth to 
form a single encircling Reef and Coral Growth)—-Changes in Faro of 
Western Rim (Comparison with Moresby’s Survey, Erosion of Reefs and 
Increase in Depth and Size of the Velu or Lagoons)—Summary. 
Cuaprer VII, Tue Formation oF THE MAtpives AND LAccADIvES . . : : : 172 
The Great Maldive Plateau—Subsidence Theory untenable—Action of Currents on 
submerged Banks or Land—Connection with Chagos and Madagascar—Forma- 
tion of the Plateau—Separate Origin of the Banks—Bathymetrical Distribution 
