Hydrology of South Africa; or, Details of the former hydrographic condition of the Cape of Good Hope, and of causes of its present aridity, with suggestions of appropriate remedies for this aridity

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ALBERT R. MANN LIBRARY

New York State Colleges

PART I. — FoBMEE Htdeogeaphic Condition op South Afbica, . 18 Chaptbb I. — Testimony supplied hy the Physical Geography of South

Describes the general contour of South Africa (p. 18) ; specifies at greater length similarities to features of the Lake Districts of North America and to Finland (p. 21) ; adduces indications that the land had been long under water, and that valleys specified had been created hy the flow of ocean-currents (p. 27) ; describes the composition of Table Mountain (p. 31) ; and draws the conclusion from the physical geography of the locality that the land must have upheaven from the bottom of the ocean, and, it may he, have been again submerged and subsequently upheaven, and this done oftener than once (p. 33).

Chapter II. — Testimony in regard to the former Geographical condition

of South Africa supplied by Geological Observations, . 3.5

Section I. — Geological Formations of Table Mountain, . . .37

States that these belong to the Primary, Metamorphic, Silurian, and Devonian formations (p. 38) ; supplies indications of the land having been for ages of untold duration at the bottom of the ocean (p. 47) ; and quotes descriptions given by Hugh Miller of what may be supposed to have then been the state of the ocean (p. 57).