| 1849 - Страниц: 488
...little world within itself; most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out." These islands swarm with herbivorous marine and terrestrial reptiles allied to the Iguanidae, which... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - Страниц: 478
...world within itself : most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in time and space, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries... | |
| 1848 - Страниц: 874
...world within itself: most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in time and space, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries... | |
| 1848 - Страниц: 876
...world within itself: most of the organic predictions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, I we are led to believe that, within a period geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread... | |
| 1849 - Страниц: 1118
...world within itself ; most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out." These islands swarm with herbivorous marine and terrestrial reptiles allied to the Iguanida?, which... | |
| 1879 - Страниц: 614
...productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every...time, we seem, to be brought somewhat near to that fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth." Next in order... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - Страниц: 722
...productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every...time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth." Next in order... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - Страниц: 960
...productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every...time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that fact— that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth." Next in order... | |
| Grant Allen - 1885 - Страниц: 238
...Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every...that within a period geologically recent the unbroken sea was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to that... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - Страниц: 224
...small size of these islands," he says, " we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every...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... | |
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