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than a stationary condition.. 
en my work passes to a second edition, I shall make the 
needed correction. : 
But | still hold that, while barrier reefs, as Mr. Darwin urges, 
descriptions of others from a good observer, J. D. Hague, w 
resided on them several months “for the purpose of studying the 
character and formation of the deposits” of guano. I found the 
Vi . . 
trary, since the coral-islands of the south Pacific diminish in size 
toward the region of these small islands, and since the region 
st north an , is free from islands, and 
since all the features are such as would come to them from a coD- 
tinuation of the coral island subsj ence to its nearly fatal end, 
