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been elevated: Oahu (Hawaian Islands), 25 feet; Molokai (ib.) 300 

 feet ; Elizabeth Island, Paumotu Archipelago, 80 feet ; Metia, or Au- 

 rora, 250 feet; Atiu, Hervey Group, 12 feet; Mangaia, 300 feet; 

 Rurutu, 150 feet; Eua, Tonga Group, nearly 300; Vavau, 100*; Sav- 

 age Island, 100. More than twenty-five others have undergone some 

 elevation. 



2. Paroxysmal. — The changes of level about Pozzuoli, near Na- 

 ples, at Cutch, in the Delta of the Indus, and on the Chilian coast, 



Fig. 958. 



Temple of Jupiter Serapis. 



South America, are noted examples. The first appears to have been 

 gradual in its progress ; but, even if so, it is not properly secular, in 

 the sense in which that term is used. The cases at Cutch and in Chili 

 were connected with earthquakes ; the other is in the volcanic region 

 of southern Italy. 



The temple of Jupiter Serapis at Pozzuoli (Fig. 958) was originally 



