Capitolo 4
state for of the elevated time above of the surface of the ocean, and later
sand and brooks had formed a small deposit containing sedimentary
Fossils of superior Miocene under of the water of bench that surrounds the principal
you gather, a disdains change of level happened during that this young person
island was inclined above with the deposits of Miocene on its shoulders as a
kind of natural memorandum to assist mine casual scientific
memoirs. With that solitary exception, however the whole group
you essentially stay volcanic in his/her composition, precisely as it was when
I saw his/her young craters and his/her inclined incandescent ash-cones before
gradually on, century after century, from the blue and deep waters of the
Mean-Miocene the ocean.
Every round my islands the Atlantic then, as it now had a depth, as I said me
before, of two thousand fathoms; indeed, in of the parts among the
group and Portugal the lead of Your human navigators finds anybody
you touch the fund, I have felt them often say, you cultivate it arrives 2,500; and out of
this sea-bed I lavish the volcanic energies they pushed on my islands as a
small submarine mountainous chain out which tops taller they were standing alone
bit bit above of the level of the surrounding sea. One of them, the
more sudden and cone-as, from name now Pico, increases to this day a
magnificent sight, diverts seven thousand feet in the sky from the
placid sheet that encircles him/it round on every side. You the creatures of
to-day, approaching himself/herself/itself in the one of Your awkward new-shaped fire-checked
canoes that you call steamboats, have to admire immensely its conic peak,
as it is of relief it drew against the ardent horizon in the depth
red flashes of a sunset of make up for-tropical Atlantic.
But when me, from my fish Persian airplane and solitary I saw my islands rise discovers and
thick first from the edge of the water, the first idea to which is happened
I as an investigator of nature was simply this: as wants them they ever get