386 Origin of the Grand Outline Features of the Earth. 
represented ; so also in the Samoan group, the Kingsmills, the 
Ladrones, and others. | 
The citation from Mr. , Fig. 7. 
Darwin, in the note top. / 
384, exhibits both parallel ~? 
and transverse lines in the 
Galapagos ; and in the Ca- eels 
naries there are similar Teac / age 2c 
facts. The position of the 
Azores here given, well il- 
lustrates the subject. ‘The st ig 
_main parallel lines are too 
obvious to require partic- 
ular remark, and the trans- S 
verse are also apparent. 
A system of curves, on a grand scale, is seen along the east of 
Asia, resembling figure 5.. The reader, to appreciate the facts, 
should refer to his map, and the best and largest within reach. 
The first of these curves extends from Kamschatka south by 
the Kuriles to Yeso, and is 1500 miles long ; a second, from Yeso, 
or the island Sanghalian just north, along Niphon to its south- 
west extremity, 900 miles long; a third, from the southwest ex- 
tremity of Niphon, through Kiusiu and other islands, to Looe 
and Formosa, about 900 miles long; a fourth, from Formosa, by 
Luzon, Palawan and the western coast of Borneo, 2000 miles 
long. 'These curves are singularly alike in form and relative 
position. - TGetst: 
These coincidences are facts: accidental, that is, without 4 
cause, no one will pretend. The Alaschka Archipelago, at the 
north, seems like a part of the same system; it forms a regular 
curve, 1600-miles long, between Kamschatka and Russian 
America. Uy 
Another corresponding system is apparent in the west coas of 
Azores or Western Islands. 
The Stanovoi and the Khingan mountains form three great 
curves of similar character, convex in the same direction; and 
the Altai range, farther in the interior, is parallel with the last. 
- When the particular islands in the curved lines south of I- 
schatka, are laid down with minute accuracy, there is reason t0 
believe that each of the curves pointed out, will be found to be 
not a simpie curve line throughout, but a compound one, having 
some degree of blance either to figure 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. 
