82 ON THE DEEP OCEANIC DEPEESSION OFF MORETON BAT. 



expressed by me that such a former connection is highly probable, 

 notwithstanding the enormous depression now existing between 

 New Zealand and Australia. 



Mr. "Wallace shows that even now the land on the face of 

 the globe " is nearly continuous, and that it is possible to go from 

 Cape Horn to Singapore and the Cape of Grood Hope without 

 ever being out of sight of land, and, owing to the intervention of 

 the numerous islands of the Malay Archipelago, the journey might 

 be continued under the same conditions as far as Melbourne and 

 Hobart Town." (p. 37.) 



