TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. 423 
In the continents of America and Europe, we observe the following 
parallel lines, parallel with the northwest lines of the Pacific. 
1. The northeast coast of South America continued west to Califor- 
nia, and here bending more northerly. 
2. The line of great lakes from Erie through Michigan, Superior, 
Winnipeg, Slave and Bear Lake, to the coast by the mouth of the 
Mackenzie. 
3. The southwest side of Hudson’s Bay. 
4. The coast on the west and east of Davis Strait and Baffin’s Bay. 
5. The Cape Palmas coast of Africa, or rather the Kong Mountains 
in the interior adjoining, following the same direction with the north- 
east coast of South America. 
6. The Pyrenees, parallel to the last. 
7. The Red Sea, Adriatic and British Isles. 
8. The Persian Gulf. 
9. Western Hindostan. 
10. The coast from Calcutta by Malacca. 
The above are close approximations to parallelisms, with such 
variations as have been shown by examples in the Pacific to be parts 
of the system. 
The following, passing over the same ground, are northeast trends. 
1. The southeast coast of South America, four thousand miles long. 
2. The coast line from the Gulf of Mexico along by Newfoundland 
and Greenland, a distance of five thousand miles. 
3. The line of Lakes Ontario, and Erie, and the River St. 
Lawrence. 
4. The Appalachians. 
5. The coast on the northwest of Hudson’s Bay, and that by 
Prince Regent’s Inlet. 
1. The east coast of the Atlantic by western Africa, Spain and 
Norway or the Baltic. The line is nearly a continuation of the 
southern coast of South America, and the break made by the ocean is 
partly filled by the islands Fernando Noronha, St. Paul, and the Cape 
Verds. 
2. The eastern coast of Africa. 
3. Madagascar. 
A. Northern coast of Asia from the Obi Gulf to the northeast cape. 
5. The east coast of Hindostan. 
6. ‘The east coast of Asia. 
These many parallelisms are too striking to be set aside by the few 
