ORIGIN OP BERMUDA 195 



Professor Suess, that a subsidence of land' amounting to 

 10,000 feet has taken place between the island of Rhodes and 

 the mainland of Syria in post-Pliocene times, whereas marine 

 deposits of late Pliocene age occur in the southern. Andes at 

 a height of 5,000 feet, is it really such an unlikely theory that 

 the supposed ancient belt of land connecting Bermuda with 

 a southern land-mass has subsided to a similar extent within 

 comparatively recent geological times ? I need not dwell any 

 longer on this problem. When I come to deal with the 

 Antilles and the origin of their fauna further allusions to it 

 will be made. 



o2 



