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Show HOW WAS TIlEfWOUtl) MADE? LtCOTREpP TB0?E83QR GKIMt;3 ON. QEiOSOUT, Pjiofessor J. Stakley GniMEa delivered UianVMbnument AesociBtion ti'ex-. .pltionbffs jjOl theory! cprifccruVng " t:ph;8ical etructarc.of ,tjio ?cMh? JBe detailed at kngtlj;tljodtscovcrIes, vrliidh. led to the;prcscuttato pfclcntifiij knqnr Jk'vconccrn!ngitho:8arra'cb;ofili d raenttonca "many.,"cuHoM features of ttte. eartK's rofWic, wWch" vfefo'ri'ow' ex-fkiaed ex-fkiaed for tlTfirst time by-b siula low, . t IlWthcoapnears'brjfeflV tolic as fol hBrewas a ttinttHrlich tfioland of tbo fth' was coirijiletSlj vcqycrcd by ttie: oCean,;Tbcrs wcrb iheh-botslroiiomijail ''eMMitd. disturb tliitf 'anrfido.'df' ihbisca Wt the ocean currents inust hao existed for the samo jcaioojthntMKejf exist fioy. The' oceanthert .miUitute'd aix .jqaal clrcuitB jjymbtrfcully' nr;ajiig;ed Hli we la each' hemisphere. Tbb cause' of 'tW'elflTatiojt'pr tbo lahdwas, the, sinking bfihebedof thefsca within each' of these ojricultiC The:lijuidjivyft Jhat was be-rci,th.tli(i be-rci,th.tli(i cruit of. the'ea.rtU'lwas crowded aroaad these circuits, pndfdrinedtK'ree "pwrcentiQetits'iucaihircraisphere.besidcs m "tropical cotitincutsi If thesc'stx ci 'eeltgprdceapiq basins iai sUukcqtiall.tbe watiacQU'wouid bare risen equally1, and tl Had in oae hemisphere would be the w ta qaaattty and la form as in the other. The laadr did actually begin to rae la tbi regular wanner, All they b aboat emerging from the sea, during w BUorlan period, derangement took pace h kc ocean cqrrents, taused by the abnomat elevatioiiof tho iidrthcrn part of .etii of the basins. TMawaa thfe pnrt wbtcli fdw constitntes the toiddlo of Asia: Tho' Caspian .sea,, and the land aroand it,' was probably tho centre of the ancient, Asiatic oc!ean Of tlte six original oceans, five; still, exist, though, imperfect" in regard to size and form, and, tho land, between. Western, Europe and Eastern Asia eccBpies the place "of the sixth, which has' been nearly elernted and. drained.. Had every, basin been raised at once, it Would have produced nodcfatigcr hs'crit. of tho neighbbrin'g' circuits j but, by-tho by-tho elevatioa.of the, northern 'liaif of tlie drcnit, the southern half became a, land-: tockedsea from; whicli ibtf heated, waters cald'nbt-escape withont over flowing into tbcifdrth.Paeiflc from the JJoy of Ben-gat, Ben-gat, and.aronnd .the Capo of Good Hop? nto; the. Houth Atlahtic -Tho derange went thus produced gradually caused a change of the tnap from iho;,Bymetrical arid npnhal fora which it otherwise would havo pdssessed tw tho present, tictual map eflhe worldi . Thferdctangenvent caused the 8inking .of the, ancient continent of S0ttta;;America;'and the.clevation of tlte present South Amcrifcain a tnpro eastern pSsitibnl VThe, continent of Australia also wal all;lori;:iiearly;'all( 'dvcrwhelraed by tho! deranged; .current, and" tho presotit Australia elevated abont twonty, degrees, further Eoatlt, cramped' in a position, dwarfed in'sizc and deformed in its proportions. pro-portions. " This derangement toot place gradaally ftf onft directioiij and "still "eon-tirihes? "eon-tirihes? .The tendency baa bcett to sUnk tlio southern hemisphere and elevate the northern, and alspM deepen lho; eastern partof.tbe pacific Ocean, . To this,cause is tb;bq:attrlbuted'tb1i fuct tjmt; tho vol-"c'atio'es.(cn vol-"c'atio'es.(cn the?Americanidb of, the Pnclfio p;cari?arbnll.bri :t the.'imain.landj.andn tbo Asiatic orooti K chain of islands near thBCcpastf:TKp lacV,that;4hb lawdsnll' point to5 the sbbth' nnd-irCbrood;..at'.the ribrthilisi explained bytho" s(atcmerit jttiat thb l8nds;;whicb pbmt"iri- a contrary. direCr tipn e;aH; rsank pntinenwhichxJsSft; ancient normal js'outbcrhlland lowing 'bott'pf fthe- 8onthte8tcrn side . of SbatbBerica,'.Africa'v:aud;' was explained br the fact 'that . the e- Trar6eTaeat;Hror;ttiecurfrat3etf sarily produced tldsteffc'ct by crowding "the South Pacific; ;circnit eastward and Vonthjvard. Thisiittturnicrpwdcd.ithe -A tlanttd ;ln .thoea.memnnner' eastward, and alsqthaVpartf of -theIndlan "ocean thatjjwashea;; "the.Bputnwwjfifn shore of AnstrbtiaVv tTJe p ;Hpru7wbleltgivc8;,"iitVits cnrving:pr:Jth'e puntainfy. bf Ulio -.jbtipb,-contex,; iouthV&itla'prodb" :bfT Betfr6m;nuroboldt'8 curirenti Cso jcalldd) ycr&dwininto ji'tbo , Sou th "Atlantic ; whtlefthe njountairis-bf thpjCapo of Gbpil ;llbpe-riiir w in. a co'ufrary. direc'tioh; in consequence ;pf -'tlie i-orerflowlogpfbjq-gullus current from the Indian ocean 'into the South iAtlantic, Thespccker said: that the truth of his theory was" proved jjy the ivay iu which thonsfinds Pf fastis heretofore governed by no known Jaw, coincide witlt.it;-jnstas a. fragment of a broken jar waa known to be a part of it by its regular fitting with the otner pieces, lie said there Were no facts of physical geography which were, inconsistent with it, oj could not bo explained by it. , i mi . 1 1 i i i .I rm i. |