Capitolo 11
of afloat heap of deposits, and sometimes swimming free on the open ocean.
In a case, as I remember well to me a swallow checked away by the,
Portuguese coasts along, a few before the Glacial period had started
you bleach the distant mountains of central and northern Europe skin,
finally exhausted on the beach of Terceira. There were no bugs
then for the food poor bird on, so it died because of hunger and
the tiredness in front of the day was out; but a small earth that the clung in a
you form into a ball to one of his/her feet it contained the egg of an earth-hull, while the
prickly seed of a Spanish and common plant was entangled among the winged one
pens from his/her awns to hook. The egg brooded out, and it became his/her parent
of a great brood of minute snails that, surviving to the wave of cold of
I Freeze her/it Age, you/he/she was developed in a type very separate of long period
that intervened in front of the advent of man in the islands; while the seed
jumped on on the natural heap of fertilizer he allowed by the swallow is decaying
body, and seizing himself/herself/itself to the valleys during the Glacial age the
hill-tops, gave birth more markedly in due season one of
native of our plants of Terceira.
Every now and then very minute earth-snails would also, arrive alive on the
it isolates after their long sea-trip on pieces of broken forest-trees--a
circumstance that me I would perhaps hesitate to mention in mere human creature
society not both it that you/he/she has been me informed believably Your really great
naturalist, experimented Darwin the experiment him with one of the
greater European earth-molluscs, the great snail of edible Roman and it founded
what anchor lived above in vigorous style after immersion in sea-water
for twenty days. Now, me I observed that very of these pieces of
broken trees, lacerated down by floods in the duration of heavy storm from the banks of
Spanish or Portuguese rivers, reached my island in eight or ten days
after having left the continent, and it sometimes contained eggs of small