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as pointed out b}’ Spencer (see -his paper of 1901, Journ. Geol. 
Soc. Vol. Ivii. p. 542, and 1912, ibidem. Vol. Iviii. pp. 348, 352, 
and also my paper on Dominica). These deposits are of Pliocene 
or late Tertiar}* date and do not necessarilj^ indicate subsidence, 
as the}’ ma}’ have been merel}’ pauses in the last stages of the el- 
evation of the Antillean islands, though of course it is not impos- 
sible that minor movements of elevation and depression may 
have operated all along the chain of the Antilles and in other 
parts of the West Indies. All these later marine deposits are 
more or less covered by volcanic matter, but being general!}^ lit- 
oral the}^ are exposed by erosion of the .sea or of streams. 
I do not think that the evidence we hav^e is sufficient to sus- 
tain the conclusions of Spencer as stated by him at page 353 of 
the Journal of the Geological Societ}^ 1902. Whether the islands 
were ever all united into one continental mass as imagined by 
Spencer is, I think, very problematical, and I doubt if there is 
any evidence for it. 
The occurrence of a tooth said to be that of an elephant in 
Guadelupe is insufficient to build any hj’pothesis upon. 
The facts which form the subject of this note have been 
stated generally in my paper on Antigua ; but as Dr. Watts 
seems to have taken a different view of them I thought it desir- 
able to restate them for the sake of possibl}’ greater clearness. 
Whether or not there exist in Antigua or in others of the 
Antilles any of the ancient rocks developed in the Virgin Islands 
is more than I can saj’. It is possible that the Seaforth Lime- 
stone, so-called by Spencer, is such a rock, but there is no cer- 
tain evidence of it, and I have seen nothing of the formation re- 
ferred to b}' Dr. Watts as extending through the West Indies 
from the Virgin Islands southward. 
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Since I wrote my paper on Antigua etc. I hav’e received 
from Mr. Forrest more definite information as to the localitj- in 
which the fossil fish de.scribed b}’ Professor Hussakof was discov- 
