Capitolo 87
there were not any horses, cows or sheep; any rabbits, weasels or cats; no
native quadrupeds of some kind except the mammals envoys in a purse or
marsupial, familiarly typified to every one of us by the kangaroo of mother
in the Park of Regent that cleanly brings around the kangaroos of child with her
deposited in the sack or purse that nature has offered for them instead
of a crib. To this raw generalisation, two to be sure special
exceptions owe the necessities is done; or rather the Australian and noble black-individual,
the dingo or wild dog and he to which ancestors without doubt came the
country in the same ship with him, as brown rape came to England with
George me. of blessed memory. But of these two solitary representatives
of the later and Asian and taller fauna 'sooner'; for the present us
you/he/she can approximately concern him/it as truth that aboriginal and not sophisticated
Australia in the clot was given completely on, on his/her first discovery, to
kangaroos, phalangers, dasyures, wombats and the other characteristic marsupial
animals, with names strange and awkward as their forms.
Now that and what is the marsupials as a family, seen in the dry land
light of modern science? They is well simply, one of the a lot of old man
mammalian families and me as soon as I have need therefore, says, in the levelling
and topsy-turvies see some evolutionary biology, the minima entitled
consideration or it respects from rational observatories. For clearly in the
kingdom of science that the last first they will be, and the first last one; it is
the greatest families that the worse one is explained, while the best
families always intend the newest. Now, the more first mammals to appear on
earth both creatures type separately marsupial. As a long time ago as the
time when the red marl of Devonshire and the blue lias of Lyme Regis
it was staid down on the bed of the muddy sea that once has covered the surface
of Dorset and the Channel English, a small creature as the kangaroo
rapes of Southern Australia lived among the plans of that what time the is