OSSIFEEOUS CAVES OF SICILY. 



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that Malta and Sicily must have been continuous. But a great fresh- 

 water Mediterranean lake hypothesis will not apply to the case. There 

 are no freshwater deposits on the north coast of Sicily, but abundance 

 of marine Pliocene strata. Further, the Hippopotamus remains from 

 Candia are the same as the Sicilian. Candia must at that time have 

 been connected with the Morea. 1 



1 If Dr. Falconer had lived, he con- 

 templated writing an essay ' On the 

 Proofs of the Severance of Sicily from 



the Continent of Africa, within the 

 modern period.' See also p. 596.— [Ed.] 



