Show IN EARLY HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD All Continents United Is Theory The Pacific ocean resembles a great eat pond while the Atlantic oc ocean nn resembles a 11 great river This Is one of ot the Interesting pieces of evidence brought forward to Bupp support rt the he Weg- Weg ener hypothesis the hypothesis the the theory ry that all the continents were once united into Into into In in- to a n single continent Dr Harlow Horlow Shapley famous Harvard Liar Dar vard yard astronomer has suggested sInkIng sinkIng sink- sink Ing lag a three mile shaft Into the earth as a means of ot testing the hypothesis The evidence for the theory Is summed up by Edwin Tenny Brewster Brewster Brew- Brew book This ster In his Interesting Puzzling Planet Contrast the Atlantic ocean with the Pacific he lie e writes There are I marked and curious differences between between be be- bei i tween the two though these are a a good deal obscured by our ordinary maps and are best to be looked for tor foron foron on a globe The he Pacific Is a round basin a sort of gigantic pond but the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic Is a sort of ot gigantic river that winds from the top of ot the earth to the bottom always of ot about the same width In fact Brewster continues If It one went by the shape of the co coast coaston st ston on th the two sides of ot the Atlantic one might well wen say that South America has cracked off on from Africa the eastern extension of ot BrazIl Brazil once the gulf guIt of ot Guinea the western western west west- em ern end of t the Sahara belonging to the Caribbean region Greenland Jammed up against the west Vest coast of ot Norway and Newfoundland one of the British Isles If It one could push the two Americas Ameri Amen I cas can eastward and nod a a little north so 80 that Greenland lay against Canada on one side and Norway on the other with Newfoundland and the British Isles pushed Into the North sea the fit It would be surprising There really Is not a little reason for thinking that the uniform width of ot the Atlantic and the remarkable fit lit between Its two sides Is something more than acc accident dent There Is a good deal of ot evidence to show that during most of ot geologic time and up to what for a geologist Is rather a recent recent recent re re- re- re cent date North and South America Amer ica lea actually were parts of Europe- Europe I Asia-Africa Asia but cracked loose and floated off oft The horse and the elephant are two good examples which support the theor theory of ot land bridges or an orIgInal original inal laid united continent contIne n David DIetz DIet comments In the New Y York rk World World- Telegram Fossil remains of ot the horse are found In certain rock layers layers layers lay lay- ers slightly older in Europe The fossil elephant appe appears rs first firstIn firstIn firstIn In Africa and later In North America Brewster believes the evidence Is better for the hypothesis The coal points very m much ch to this theory he writes The UThe coal of Pennsylvania New England and Nova Scotia is of ot the same age aRe as that of ot the British Isles France Germany Germany Ger Ocr many and anel Spain and is altogether very like It Moreover throughout these two coal districts through t the e entire length of ot the Appalachian mountains on our side of ot the ocean and In Scandinavia Scandinavia Scan Scan- on the other the mountain ridges run ron northeast and nod southwest as If it they were all parts of the same system and in various ways the die rocks match surprisingly |