Distribution of Land and Water. : oS) 
the Pacific, until it meets South America, the northern portion 
pees: while early half of the surface between the pole and 
oer anifested in the northern than in the southern hemi- 
et and if the presence of a certain amount of dry land 
thin the ty 
hee and its place to be supplied, first, by a mass of land in 
sor tropical zone, exactly similar in area and configuration 
mt America, Nova Zembla, and Greenland be replaced y 
ilar to Victoria Land, and let a few scattered islan 
We should thus have a state of edit ap- 
: more to the conditions required for a high 
Water tg rature than the present distribution of land and — 
Would et the distribution here supposed for both hemispheres 
Fey precisely what at present exists in the colder of the 
~ ered 38, Att XXXIV, On the Laws which Regulate the Distribution of 
