ADDENDA. 



Elevation of the Land. — From the following statement it appears, 

 that the slow upward movement of the land is in progress in other 

 countries as well as in Scandinavia (ante, p. 116). 



"Gradual rising of Newfoundland above the sea. — The whole of 

 the land in and about the neighbourhood of Conception Bay, very 

 probably the whole island, is rising out of the ocean at a rate 

 which promises, at no distant day, materially to affect, if not to 

 render useless, many of the best harbours on the coast. At Port 

 de Grave a series of observations have been made, which undeniably 

 prove the rapid displacement of the sea-level in the vicinity. Several 

 large flat rocks over which schooners might pass some thirty or forty 

 years ago with the greatest facility, are now approaching the surface, 

 the waters being scarcely navigable for a skiff. At a place called the 

 Cosh, at the head of Bay Roberts, upwards of a mile from the sea- 

 shore, and at several feet above its level, covered with five or six feet 

 of vegetable mould, there is a perfect beach, the stones being rounded, 

 of a moderate size, and in all respects similar to those now found in 

 the adjacent land washes." — Newfoundland Times, October, 1847. 



Discovery of the Eggs of the Moa of New Zealand, — (see ante, 

 p. 129). — My son, Mr. Walter Mantell, of Wellington, in a late explor- 

 ing expedition into the interior of the country, in search of remains 

 of the gigantic struthious birds with which those islands once 

 abounded, discovered numerous fragments of the eggs, some of which 

 I have received. These specimens consist of small portions, having 

 their edges rounded, as if waterworn. The shell is of a light cream 

 colour, and the external surface is marked with numerous fine, short, 

 interrupted, linear grooves : differing from the eggs of the Ostrich and 

 Emu, but most nearly resembling those of the latter. The shell is 

 relatively thin, and from the slight degree of convexity of the largest 

 specimen, must have been of great size. 



