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served in any one district elsewhere on the surface of 

 the globe. Not less than two hundred thousand 

 square miles of country are there entirely covered 



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JAW AND TOOTH OP ELEPHANT. 



with basalt of comparatively modern date, and great 

 lines of elevated land also of modern elevation now 

 form lofty and extensive tracts ; the Ghauts of south- 

 western as well as those of eastern India, the central 

 or Vindhya range, the northern Circars, and other 

 mountain ranges have all been formed, and vast ter- 

 tiary deposits, of which the Kunkur and the Regur 

 or cotton soil of India are among the most remark- 

 able, have been spread out over the surface. These, 

 it is probable, are all different results of one system 

 of upheaval, which did riot terminate till the eleva- 

 tion of the loftiest mountain tract in the world was 

 effected ; and these changes are certainly of compa- 

 ratively recent date, many of them having gone on 

 even during the historic period. Probably much of 

 the low land, and even some of that having consi- 

 derable elevation in the plains of central Asia, has 

 only at a very recent period emerged from the sea. 



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