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being itself isolated in character and approaching more to 

 that of the Old World.* He was then unaware that this zoo- 

 logical island, which his keen insight and judgment had 

 recognised, extended really far to the north of New England, 

 that it formed part, in fact, of the north-western prolongation 

 of the European continent in late Pliocene times, preserving 

 until the present day many characters in common with the 

 Old World. 



* Agassiz, L., " Fishes of the Tennessee," pp. 363364. 



