Origin of the Grand Outline Features of the Earth. 387 
On a large recent map of the Pacific and East Indies, the range 
of the New Hebrides (K, fig. 8) and the nearly parallel New Cal- 
edonia, (M,) is observed to be continued in the Salomon islands 
New Ireland and Louisiade group, (1, G, H,) as before stated ; 
but the range, we remark farther, is becoming to the westward, 
gradually more east and west in direction, changing from N. 40° 
. to N.65° W. The range does not stop here: it is continued 
Fig. 8. 
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Group; M. New:Caledonia; N. Northeast Australia ; : 3 
North New Zealand. a 
for another place, we observe only that this great range curves 
ine from N. 66° W. to N. 35° W. 
em from maps or descriptions. apie 
- In the valuable work on New South Wales, by Strzelecki, this 
intelligent and laborious traveller mentions and figures the succes- 
