Capitolo 89
Newfoundland or Sicily, possessing the great and abundant native
quadruped, of the same general type as continent adjacent to which we see
once that the island is due to previously be a mere peninsula, as
Italy or Nova Scotland a present day. The a lot of fact that Australia
it includes a great group of biggish quadrupeds which the similar one once
Lived Europe and America, enough in himself to try over
you question that communication of nonstop earth is due to exist once
between Australia and those distant continents.
In fact, to this day a belt of very deep sea, known as the Line of Wallace,
from the great naturalist out how first it sharpened his of vast course
zoological importance, separates what has called from science 'the
Australian province' on the southwest from 'the Indo-Malayan province'
to the north and east of him. This belt of deep sea brusquely divides street
the plants and animals of the Australian type from those of the ground of common ownership
Indian and Burmese model. South of the Line of Wallace we find a lot now
islands, great and small included Guinea New, Australia, Tasmania the
Moluccas, Celebes, Timor, Amboyna and Gang. All these earths which
geographical and precise position on the map has to quickly be clearly
remembered, in this age of aces of school and universal examination, from
every pupil-teacher and every girl of Girton, are now separated from smaller
narrow of a lot of water of shallower; but all of them is standing on a great submarine
you deposit money, and it evidently formed to a parts of time of the same wide Australian
continent, because animals of the Australian type are still found in
every one of them. However, any Indian or Malayan animal of the greatest
kind (anything else other than the birds) it will be open wherever southern of Wallace
Line. That narrow belt of deep sea, in short, forms a barrier of ocean
what you/he/she is sustained there since then without the change the end of the
secondary period. Since then to this, as evidence shows us,
there has been never any communication of direct earth among Australia and