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South America, is sub-specific with one found in the 
Malay Archipelago. 
To account for the presence of species, Mr. Wallace 
has adopted Dr. Sclater’s “ hypothetical” Lemurian 
Continental Bridge, a grand junction of Celebes with 
Africa, Madagascar, India, but mot touching at Fava or 
Sumatra, which “Jslands had not risen above the ocean.” 
I doubt greatly this to be Dr. Sclater’s line of continental 
elevation. How on recalling the map, this junction of 
Africa with India and Celebes, Java and Sumatra forming 
no part of it, is unimaginable by my mind, how also is it 
made to square with Mr. Wadllace’s other theory that 
- Sumatra has disappeared and reappeared frequently in 
its history. 
At any rate all these Geologic changes invented to 
account for existing species, must throw the date when 
those species arrested their development at perfection back 
to an unimaginable antiquity: and this whether they be 
Papilios, or Marsupials. 
( Metatheria these are designated; but I am not sure 
what force mefa has in this combination; whether it 
must be taken that the beasts date after the prototheria; 
or whether the preposition implies change ( Evolution 
from prototheria to metatheria) as ‘meta’ generally does 
in composition, perhaps it represents both.) 
It is a great misfortune that the noble science of 
Geology (which has in it nothing to affect Revelation 
when reasonably, and reverently read ), should be hampered 
with the guesses, which are necessary to bend it to the 
service of ‘Evolution’ (which has very much in it 
irreconcilable with the Divine word), and which, until 
very lately, even Lyell held to be not only irreconcilable 
with it, but flatly to contradict it. “ There are many 
phenomena, still unexplained no doubt, to give plausibility to 
Scepticism.” (Froude.) 
