 | 1848 - 876 էջ
...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 674 էջ
...from p. 75. Vot. xxvi.— No. 657 to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 722 էջ
...from p. 75. VOL. xxvi.— No. 657 to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range.... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 էջ
...the singularity of the Galapagos fauna. " Considering the small size of these islands," he says, " we feel the more astonished at the number of their...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 էջ
...itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we fuel the more astonished at the number ol their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 էջ
...itself, or rather a satellite attached* to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions....these islands, we feel the more astonished at the jmmbeiL of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every height crowned with its... | |
 | 1909 - 574 էջ
...itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 էջ
...itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1925 - 492 էջ
...separated from that continent by an open space of ocean, between 500 and 600 miles in width. . . . Considering the small size of these islands, we feel...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... | |
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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 height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the... 
