 Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem...  Charles Darwin - Page 53by Grant Allen - 1885 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1848 - 642 pages
...world within itself ; most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...within a period geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out." These islands swarm with herbivorous marine and terrestrial reptiles allied... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1972 - 384 pages
...derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel...their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range . . . We seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact, that mystery of mysteries — the first... | |
 | Michael Hume Jackson - Nature - 1993 - 369 pages
...derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel...within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number...that within a period geologically recent the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that... | |
 | University of Hawaii at Hilo. Dept. of Geography - Reference - 1998 - 354 pages
...O. JUVIK EVOLUTION After returning from a trip to the Galapagos in the 1830s, Charles Darwin wrote: Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to rhat... | |
 | Edmund Blair Bolles - Science - 1999 - 518 pages
...derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel...within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that... | |
 | Max Lungarella - Computers - 2007 - 408 pages
...morphology to emerge into something more than it was whence it came. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number...their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. 3.2 The AILAB Islands and Their Respective Populations St. Simir Island. Of terrestrial mammals, there... | |
 | Stewart B. Peck, National Research Council Canada - Nature - 2001 - 296 pages
...derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel...within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhere near to that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number...that within a period geologically recent the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that... | |
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