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CONCLUSION. 



those ingenious speculations which have been given 

 succinctly in this volume (p. 110). Ed. Forbes 

 took the position of this " weed " bank from the 

 Physical Atlas of Berghaus ; but there are reasons 

 for supposing that it is not quite correctly laid 

 down in that work, particularly in the southern 

 portion. 



The configuration of the bed of the Atlantic, and 

 some other considerations, suggest a somewhat dif- 

 ferent form for that old land which is supposed to 

 have stretched away from the " Old World " into the 

 Atlantic. 



A dotted line from Newfoundland to Cape Fare- 

 well, (the extreme southern point of Greenland,) 

 thence across the Atlantic by Iceland and the Faroe 

 Archipelago, represents, conjecturally, the northern 

 limitation of the Atlantic at the time when it did 

 not communicate with the Arctic basin. 



The northern coast of the connecting land be- 

 tween the Old World and the New may be supposed 

 to have extended continuously from Nordland to 

 North Greenland. This land did not connect itself 

 on the south with the group of the British islands, 

 but passed somewhere to the north, leaving a com- 

 munication from the Atlantic into the German 

 Ocean, which, at the period of the fauna of the 

 Crag deposits, held to the North Atlantic a like 

 relation of "inland sea" that Hudson's Bay now 

 does on the American continent. 



