Capitolo 88
south of England. In the centuries that succeed the deposition of the red marl
Europe seems to have been stormed above in an archipelago of bluffs of coral
and atolls; and the islands of this ocean of ancient oolitic were tenanted
from numbers of small ancestral marsupials in some of what they drew near
I wait for the ant-eaters put in a purse of Western Australia, while others
resembled to rather the phalangers and wombats, or it became in excellent
counterfeit carnivores as our modern friend the Tasmanian devil. Above to
the end of the time when the chalk deposits of Carriage, Kent and Sussex
it was staid down, there is not indeed, wherever any evidence of the existence
in the world of some mammalian ones that you/they differ in type from those what time
you occupy Australia. In the other words, till now as you greet the mammalian life the,
whole some world had almost enough arrived already then the same point
of evolution to which poor Australia sticks hammers him.
On the beginning of the tertiary period, however only after the
chalk was everything deposited, and few before the modern clays comparatively
and sandstones of the London basin started to be staid down an arm of the,
sea the connection separated him that once he sustained among Australia and
the rest of the world, probably from a bridge of earth _via_ Java, Sumatra,
the Malayan peninsula and Asia generally. 'But as You he/she knows', he/she asks the
candid inquirer, 'that such connection ever existed at all?' Simply
this way, more praiseworthy investigator--because there are the great mammals of earth
in Australia. The great mammals of earth don't now, swim through a wide ocean.
There is no anybody in New Zelanda, anybody in the Azores anybody in Fiji, anybody in
Tahiti, anybody to Madeira anybody in Teneriffe--anybody, in short, in some
oceanic island that never to some duration it formed part of a great continent.
How could you/he/she be, indeed? The mammals necessarily have to have there
from in some place; and every whenever we find islands as Britain or Japan, or