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favour of land-connexion having formerly existed in certain cases 

 across Avhat are now broad and deep oceans" (p. 77). Moreover, 



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when asked to give his opinion on this important question of "per- 

 manence of ocean basins," Professor Suess remarked that the geological 

 evidence did not prove, nor even point to, a permanence of the great 



