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QUADRUMANA. 



took their place. He adds that while there is every reason to negative 

 a union between Africa and America, yet a moderate extension of their 

 shores to each other is not improbable, and this with large islands in the 

 piace ot the Cape Verd group, St. Paul s Rocks, and Fernando Noronha, 

 would suffice to explain the amount of similarity that actually exists. 



