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Bonin Islands (also rising); and in 80° is Japan, with which 
this botanical relationship exists. 
It is objected by Mr. Darwin to this line of argument (as to 
that on p. 15, concerning the Pacific Islands), that all these sink- 
ing areas are volcanic islands, having no traces of older rocks 
on them. But I do not see that this altogether invalidates the 
hypothesis; for many of the loftiest mountains throughout the 
Malayan Archipelago, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, - 
are volcanic; some are active, and many attain to 14,000 feet in 
elevation, whilst the lower portions of some of the largest of 
these islands are formed of rocks of various ages. 
(To be continued.) 
Arr. I.—Some General Views on Archeology ; by A. Mortor.* 
; * This article is an introduction to a r entitled, Geologico-Archzeological Stud- 
Jes in Denmark and Switzerland, ap ast in the Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise 
des Sciences Naturelles, for 1859, ae of which a separate edition, comprising the 
will be i 
pu < 
SECOND SERIES, Vor. XXIX, No. 85,—JAN., 1860. 
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