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Transcription
"During the Tertiary Mexico in the gutter
western half is land. A long narrow land into Central
America. In the Eocene there is gap between
Venezuela and Central America of an 1/2 mile.
In the Miocene widely connected.
My Devonian Landlake axis is
accepted.
Finally he told me that through a study
of these lines he has learned that the water
in Southern Hemisphere is pressing the southern
continents to the North. That the gutter un-affects old lands and undisturbed Paleozoic
strata are situated around the North Pole.
India is shoved under the Hindujas,
Africa for moved against Tethys folding
those strata one to the north. Further that
other movements are each way laterally for
the great ocean pressing of the continental
edges. Therefore in the equatorial region the
east-west line of structure are on the margin
of the Atlantic and Pacific both are heated
due to two lines of movements - the move-
ment of the Southern Continent north and the lands