60 The Rev. S. Haughton on Physical Geology. [Mar. 8_, 



Y. Attstkalia and Pacific Islands. 

 Islands. 



Long. 



cos 3 X' — cos 3 X. 



X. 



Y. 



O 



1 AA 



1UU 



a. ai 



A. A1 

 — U Ul 



A. AA 

 U'UU 



1UD 



a.ai 

 U Ul 



A. A1 

 — U Ul 



A.AA 



u uu 



1 1 A 

 11U 



A.I R 



U lo 



A.I K 

 — U ID 



A. Aft 

 — U'UD 



11D 



U oo 



A.QA 



— U oU 



A.I A 

 — U*14 



1 OA 

 1ZU 



A-OQ 



— U ZD 



A.I PC 



— u id 



1ZD 



U OD 



A.9Q 



A. OA 



— U'zU 



1 ^A 



A.O^ 



A.I Q 



— u iy 



A.i a 

 — U lb 



loo 



A.9Q 



A. OA 

 — U ZU 



A. OA 

 — U ZU 



1 AO 



U D^± 



— U OO 



A. A 1 

 — U 41 



14D 



A. A Q 

 U 4o 



A.OT 



— U 'Z{ 



A.QA 



— U-oy 



150 



0-10 



-0-05 



-0-08 



155 



0-00 



0-00 



0-00 



160 



0-00 



0-00 



0-00 



165 



0-14 



-0-04 



— 0-13 



170 



0-20 



-0-03 



-0-19 



175 



0-05 



-0-01 



-0-04 



X=-2-14 Y=-2-14 

 X= — 2*14= 30*2 miles (towards Rangoon), 

 Y=— 2-14 = 30-2 miles (towards Behring's Strait). 

 Collecting all the preceding results into one Table, we see the relative 

 effects of the elevation of each of the existing continents upon the posi- 

 tion of the pole. 



Displacement of North Pole caused by each continent. 



Towards 



Towards Behring's Towards Towards 

 Greenwich. Strait. Yucatan. Rangoon, 

 miles. miles. miles. miles. 



Europe and Asia 58-7 199-4 



Africa 26-9 3-1 



North America 15-2 105-5 



South America 19-9 35-1 



Australia, &c 30-2 30-2 



The power of Europe and Asia in moving the pole is partly due to 

 the extension of this continent along the parallel of 45°, which is the 

 most effective latitude. The actual effect produced by Europe and Asia 

 was not much less than that of our imaginary continent (Note I.), occu- 

 pying one eighth part of the surface of the globe. 



The foregoing results are positive, and the motions of the pole indi- 

 cated must have actually occurred when the existing continents were 

 formed. But simultaneously with these elevations depressions must 

 have gone on elsewhere, continents disappearing beneath the sea and 

 sinking to the zero plane, while other continents were rising. It is to 



