Show IN EARLY HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD all continents united Is 13 theory tito pacific resembles a great pond while tile the atlantic ocean resembles it great river title tills la Is one of the interesting pieces of ovi evidence delice brought forward to support tile wog weg enor hypothesis tho the theory that nil 1111 tho were once united into it single continent dr harlow shapley famous harvard astronomer lina has suggested sinking R three mile shaft into In tho earth its as a means of testing tho the hypothesis the evidence for tile tho theory Is summed hummed up hy by R dwin te uny brow ster in ills his interesting book this puzzling planet 11 contrast tho atlantic ocean with the pacific lie ho writes there are marked and curious differences bo be tween tile two though these tiro are a 11 good deal obscured oba cured by our ordinary ord luary maps and are best to bo be looked for on a globe the pacific Is a round basin a sort of gigantic pond but tho the atlantic Is a sort of gigantic river that winds front from tho the top of tile tho earth to tile tho bottoni bottom always of about tile same daino width in fact drowsier brewster continues it if one went by tho the shape of tho coast on tile tho two sides of the atlantic one might well say that south america line cracked oft off from froin africa tho the eastern extension of brazil once occupying tile alio gulf of guinea luf fien tho the western end of tile sahara belonging to tho the caribbean region greenland jammed up against tho the west mast coast of norway rind newfoundland one of tho the british isles if ono one could push the two americas annerl eastward and a little north so that greenland lay against canada on one side and norway on tho the other with newfoundland and the british isles pushed into tho the north sea tho the fit would be surprising there really to Is not a little reason for thinking that the uniform width of the atlantic and the remarkable it bt between its two sides is 10 something more than accident there to Is a good deal of evidence to show that during most ot of geologic time and up to what for a geologist Is rather a recent date north and south america actually were parts of europe asia africa but cracked loose and floated off the horse and tile the elephant ore are two good examples which support the theory of land bind bridges or an original united continent david dlela comments in the new york world telegram fossil remains of the horse are found in certain rock layers slightly older in europe the fossil elephant appends first in africa and later in north america brewster Brow ster believes tile the evidence Is better for the nver ener hypothesis tile the coal points very much to this theory 1 lio lie writes alia tho coal of now new 1111 gland and NO jovn sla Is of tile tho affo go ns its chrit of the british isles france fler ninny many and spain Is altogether very like it throughout these two coal districts through tile entice length of tile mountains on outside our side ot of tile tho and in III scandinavia on the other tile ridges run northeast and southwest na as if they were nit nil parts of tile stanle sY syntell stell and in various ways tit alip C roda snatch surprisingly |