ANCIENT LANDS AND SEAS 



causing great loss of land on the east coast of 

 England, especially in Suffolk, where the great 

 city of Dunwich has been swallowed up by the 

 sea. In other parts the sea throws up sand and 



Fig. 27. — Tlie real test of Geology : an attempt to determine 

 the distribution of land and water in past ages. The 

 period here shown is the Oligocene or Middle Tertiary, the 

 a-rea is that of our present Europe. The sea is shaded, 

 the land areas are left white. Central and Southern 

 Europe was a sea, with a few large islands in it. North 

 Europe formed a continent including the British Islands 

 and Iceland. (After Laj^parent.) 



adds miles of new land to the coast. The 

 immense quantity of stuff which is carried off 

 the surface by rains and rivers is difficult at 

 first to imagine. Taking the river Thames at 

 Kingston, it is found that something like 500,000 



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