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Show LOST SOUTH SEAS CONTINENT. Australian Professor Seeks Solution of Ancient Mystery. The lost continent, of tho South nonB is n pet study of Dr. Woolnougu of Sydney university. The main difficulty diffi-culty In tho way of lcconclllng existing exist-ing conditions with an original great area was that depths ot 2,000, fathoms occurred between the Islands. It was necessary to look for land ovldenco of faulting or breaking to account for the submarine depths. Tho granite area in Vltl Leva was found to he from 400 to 600 square miles In extent, ex-tent, underlying tho modern volcanic rocks. A rango of granite mountains with precipitous cliffs on each side gnvo cvldenco of heavy faults creating creat-ing chasnlftof great depth. Ho found tho rivers fofmjng a marked rectangular rectangu-lar network, an ' uprntsed coral reef 200 feet nbovo tho sea level, conglomerate conglom-erate rock showing sea shells at a height of 800 feet abovo tho sea, and certain tilts nnd tufts which had formerly been submarine and were now nt a height of 4,500 feet. All these Indicated a tremendous uplift sufficient to cause greater faulting in tho original continent. Tho rivers of Fiji were of comparatively youthful development, and even at present passing through tho canon cycle. |