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connection of the European Devonian ocean with the American and 

 South African Devonian ocean such as the Tassili fossils, according to 

 Professor Hang, should indicate. 



Fig. 1. — Map showing the distribution of land and water in the Atlantic region 

 during- early Devonian times; from Trans. Phil. Soc. S.A., Cape Town, 1905, 

 vol. xvi; see also F. Katzer, Bol. d. Museu Paraense, 1895, vol. ii, map to 

 face p. 237. 



Taking only the southern and western shores into account, it is 

 manifest that there was a land-mass occupying the area of the Atlantic 

 in Lower Devonian times of somewhat similar dimensions to that of 

 the Americas. Has Dr. Sutton's investigation at Kimberley any 

 connection with this? The facts are very suggestive taken into 

 account with the later Lemuria, which occupied the Indian Ocean 

 closer to Africa than the earlier Flahellites land did to America. I do 

 not wish to strain the point at present as it is a new one, but I wish to 

 draw attention to Dr. Sutton's work, which appears to me pregnant with 

 important bearing on questions of earth physics. If this earth creep 

 westwards is established, it will be the deathblow to the Tetrahedral 

 theory, for it will provide for a continuous obliteration of earth features 

 in the direction of the earth's revolution, and there are no forces within 

 the earth to reproduce the tetrahedral edges, which are supposed to 



