But not even geological epochs, it will be observed, are
assigned to the maps. If, however, an inference may be drawn
from all the evidence before us, it would seem probable that the
older of the two Lemurian maps represented the earth's
configuration from the Permian, through the Triassic and into
the Jurassic epoch, while the second map probably represents the
earth's configuration through the Cretaceous and into the Eocene
period. From the older of the two maps it may be seen that the
equatorial continent of Lemuria at the time of its greatest
expansion nearly girdled the globe, extending as it then did
from the site of the present Cape Verd Islands a few miles from
the coast of Sierra Leone, in a south-easterly direction through
Africa, Australia, the Society Islands and all the intervening
seas, to a point but a few miles distant from a great island
continent (about the size of the present South America) which
spread over the remainder of the Pacific Ocean, and included
Cape Horn and parts of Patagonia.