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measurement based in error, and we make the elevation to Vie about 700 

 feet at the highlands of Vologda, still taking the lowest level between the 

 Euxine and the Baltic to be in a line of latitude 58, the waters of the two 

 were of no dissimilar height, while the Gulf of Bothnia was still an open 

 strait, and the northern portion of the Old Continent had not as yet com- 

 menced rising. It appears that Norwegian Lapland has risen 1800 feet 

 in the last 1200 years. 



At page 129, note, we should have added that even the byssus of the 

 pinna was not destroyed. 



Pages 142-3. The volcanic disturbances of the Red Sea were again in 

 operation in the last or in the present year (1847), when a new island rose 

 above the surface in the southern portion. The French survey, for a 

 canal between Suez and Lake Mensaleh, recently published, likewise 

 countenances the opinion that the Isthmus was originally open. 



Page 151. Among others, is the tale of Moshup, the giant spirit, who 

 resided at Nop, now Martha's Vineyard, at a time when the currents ran 

 differently, and ice used to pack about Nantucket shoals. But better 

 evidence is found in the researches of Mr. Lyell, who considers the south- 

 eastern portion of the United States, about Savannah, to be subsiding, 

 while Canada, and latterly Nova Scotia, are shown to be rising, probably 

 in the same ratio as the Arctic regions on the Old Continent. 



Page 155. The human bones first discovered in England were in fissures 

 of lime rock : they went to mend the highway, and no investigation by 

 competent pei'sons took place until long after. A similar fate attended 

 the discovery of a completely fossilized human body at Gibraltar, in 1748. 

 The fact is related in a manuscript note, inserted in a copy of the disser- 

 tation on the antiquity of the earth, by the Rev. James Douglass, read at 

 the Royal Society, May 12, 1785. The volume belonged to the late Rev. 

 Vyvyan Arundel, while he was still at Exeter College, Oxford, and the 

 note, signed J. W., is written on paper, by the water-mark indicating 

 about the year 1 790. In substance it relates that while the writer was 

 himself at Gibraltar, some miners employed to blow up rocks, for the 

 purpose of raising batteries, ibout fifty feet above the level of the sea, on 



