And with this ancient elephant there were meetly associated in Britain, as on the northern continents generally all around the globe, many other mammals of corresponding magnitude.
And sailing more Northerly alongst that coast, he descried another forland with a great gut, bay, or passage, diuided as it were two maine lands or continents asunder.
Although extensive additions to continents may be and no doubt are often largely due to epeirogenic movements, the influence of orogenic movements on continent-formation is very pronounced.
I cannot conclude the consideration of the question of permanence of oceans and continents more fitly than by quoting from Dr Blanford's address.
A great marine period is now existent in our ocean areas, but so far as the existing continents are concerned, we are living on the fourth continental period which practically came into existence in Miocene times.
At the beginning the connection was between Cuba and America as a whole--the continents of the western hemisphere.
Meantime all the Spanish colonies on the American continents had not only declared but had actually achieved their independence.
By this means the actual waterway between the two continents will be shortened by something like a third.
They were all in different countries and the countries were in continents and the continents were in the world and the world was in the universe.
Wallace clinches the matter when he finds "almost the whole of the vast areas of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, without a solitary relic of the great islands or continentssupposed to have sunk beneath their waves.
In a letter to Mr Mellard Reade, written at the end of 1880, he wrote: "On the whole, I lean to the side that the continents have since Cambrian times occupied approximately their present positions.
Evidently, these problematical animals had reached the northern continents by migrating from some other region, but no one could say where that region lay.
More northerners have established themselves in southern lands than vice versa, because there is such a great mass of land in the north and greater continents imply greater intensity of selection.
I do not believe that it will ever be proved that within the recent period continents which are now quite separate, have been continuously, or almost continuously, united with each other, and with the many existing oceanic islands.
Like Forbes he did not shrink from assuming enormous changes in the configuration of the continents and oceans because the theory of descent, with its necessary postulate of great migrations, required them.
He had apparently long satisfied himself as to the "permanence of continents and great oceans.
If the furrows account for the great ocean basins, the disposition of the continents seems equally to follow.
He saw in the five races of Man the clue to the mapping of the world into as many "true zoological divisions," and he reconciled the five continents with his mystical quinary circles.
It is the province of geology to estimate the enormous aggregate of detritus, continents washed away and new continents formed, and the face of the earth remodelled and renewed.
Through the operation of this law of extinction and of creation, animated nature, both on the continents and in the seas, has undergone a marvellous change.
There are mountain eminences ten or fifteen thousand feet in altitude in the interior of continentsover which, or through which shells and other products of the sea are profusely scattered.
But the case is quite different if one looks at the two continents as a whole, for improvement in means of communication has brought about strange vicissitudes, and western Europe has asserted her power in middle and eastern Asia.
As Lyell remarks: "Hutton imagined that the continents were first gradually destroyed by aqueous degradation, and when their ruins had furnished materials for new continents, they were upheaved by violent convulsions.
The greatest of the world’s philosophers marveled at the wisdom of her government, and her political system became the model for all the kings of the four continents then known.
Today throughout the five continents of the globe it is Europe and most sections of America that are renowned for law and order, government and commerce, art and industry, science, philosophy and education.
These great features in the life of the seas, noticed only recently, were, however, as visible as the continents themselves.
The Palms of the continents of the eastern world are, with very few exceptions, inhabitants of the sea-borders, and do not thrive at any considerable elevation or even distance inland.
Under similar circumstances the same lichen covers the face of the rock in Europe as in the continents of the torrid zone, the same mould lines decaying matter, and the same fungus cleaves to bark and root.
In islands there are many cases of undoubted restriction of species to a small area, but these involve a different question from the range of species on continents where there is no apparent obstacle to their wider extension.
If we visit the great islands of the globe, we find that they present similar anomalies in their animal productions, for while some exactly resemble the nearest continents others are widely different.
There are some few still more extraordinary cases in which the species of one genus are separated in remote continents or islands.
They are, in fact, the highest and best product of the old dying marsupial stock, specially evolved in the great continents through the fierce competition of the higher mammals then being developed on every side of them.
Both are so ridiculously like the analogous animals of the larger continents that the colonists always call them, in perfect good faith, by the familiar names of the old-country creatures.
As long, however, as the telegraphic communication between the two Continents lasts, your name cannot fail to be honorably associated with it.
The nations stand no more apart, With clasped hands thecontinents Feel throbbings of each other's heart.
Perhaps it was in his studio that Christopher first saw a chart, and first fell in love with the magic that can transfer the shapes of oceans and continents to a piece of paper.
Continents disappear, undermined by earthquakes and similar convulsions of nature, and new lands arise from the bowels of some faraway ocean to keep the balance even.
By the beginning of the Quaternary epoch the continents had assumed their present general area, and since then their internal features have alone suffered change.
Much the same backbone-showing of continents yet to be filled out was true of Europe, Asia, and South America.
The streaks traversed them in all directions, tesselating the continents into a tilework of islands.
Continents are not such equalizers of heat as oceans because of their conductivity on the one hand and their immobility on the other.
The network is not only a mesh de facto, then, but one de jure, which, subsequent to the fashioning of the seas and continents and what these have now become, has been superposed upon them.
From this, which is a fair sample of the proportion of land then to land now over the other continents so far as they are geologically known, we turn to consider more in detail the history of North America.
Continents and islands grow old, and waste and disappear.
Other men were examining pieces of rock and telling the story which they told of the history of the earth ages and ages ago when the land of that Polar world was joined with the continents of Africa and South America.
It follows from these considerations that the rocks which form the earth's crust over the surface of the continents and the islands, or beneath the bed of the ocean, must have a lessening acreage year by year.
The twin continents of America have rivalled the record of the Old World in their experience of earthquakes since their discovery in 1492.
The Titans themselves were dwarfs beside these mighty agents of destruction whose domain extends for thousands of miles beneath the earth's surface and which in their convulsions shake whole continents at once.
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