This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...has existed it is impossible to doubt, and by it the vegetation of the Orient gained extension into Socotra. But there are those other Asian forms which do not occur anywhere in south-west Asia to account for--Indian and other Eastern affinities. How did they reach Socotra 1 An elevation of land that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...has existed it is impossible to doubt, and by it the vegetation of the Orient gained extension into Socotra. But there are those other Asian forms which do not occur anywhere in south-west Asia to account for--Indian and other Eastern affinities. How did they reach Socotra 1 An elevation of land that would unite Socotra and Madagascar with Africa--an elevation which certainly took place--would, if increased and continued over a wider area, produce some interesting changes in surface features. Not only would the Gulf of Aden disappear by the union of Africa with Arabia, but there would be no Persian Gulf, and the Euphrates would pour its waters through a delta extending over a large part of the Arabian Sea, and through this delta the Indus would also discharge, the coast-line of the Indiau Peninsula being advanced to some extent. South of the equator Madagascar would join the Seychelles, which in turn, through the Malha and Nazareth banks, would run into the larger Mascarene Islands. In this way, then, Africa would have an irregular coast-line prolonged greatly south of the equator into the Indian Ocean, and running up with an advance upon its present line until it reached its north-eastern limit outside and south of Socotra. Thence an advanced land-surface of Asia would extend across the Arabian Sea into the Indian Peninsula. It appears to me that we must assume that some such land-surface as this existed to aid us in explaining the migration westward to Socotra of Indo-Malayan types, several of which have a striking extension into Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. Lieutenant-Colonel GodwinAusten asserts that the relationship of the Socotran land-shells are such as to warrant the conclusion of a prolongation of land-surface which...
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