text:  "Geological theories give their part to render these notions popular; not only the late speculations of the Count de Buffon and the learned Bailly but the opinions of ancient philosophers who maintained before the time of Justin and of Pliny that the mountains of high Asia must have been the part of the world first inhabited by men inasmuch as that region must have been first refrigerated in the gradual cooling of the surface of our planet and first raised sufficiently above the level of the ocean