Excerpt from Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, 1867-8-9, Vol. 3 Some have supposed that Madagascar and the Mascarene islands, with other numerous atolls and coral reefs, have formed the site of an ancient tract of land in the Indian Ocean similar to the great Pacific continent, whose former existence and subsequent subsidence were indicated by Darwin some time ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.