Capitolo 93
anterior edges, enormous legs of hind, a monstrous tail and a curious habit of
exciting along the earth (he/she called from the natives a kangaroo), the
opossumses of America were the only ones they put in a purse known mammals to the European
I husk in some part of the explored continents. Australia, truncated from
the whole rest of the earth--_penitus toto orbe divisa_--since then the
end of the secondary period, remained as he/she anchors, so to speak, in the
secondary age pertained to as its greatest life-elements till now, and
introduced a certain vague and indefinite portrait to the first comers of
thing 'the world in front of the flood' you/he/she has had to look as. Only it was a
very remote flood; an antediluvian age separated really not from ours from
thousand, but from millions, of seasons.
To this approximate and raw affirmation, however different necessary
qualifications must have made to the a lot of beginning. Any affirmation is never
entirely corrects until you you/he/she has contradicted in minute detail around
two-third of him.
There is in the first place a good person many modern elements in the
native population of Australia; but then they is elements of the
you divert and kind casual one finds equal in oceanic and remote islands always.
They is lost objects spread by accident by the other places. For example, the
flora is exclusively from anybody means an ancient flora, for a considerable
number of seeds and fruits and spores of ferns the is blown for a long time
you leave without breath, or it washed from the sea, or it continued the feet or pens of birds,
from a part of the world to another. In all these various ways, no
you doubt, cried modern from the Asian region you/they have invaded Australia to
different times, and it altered to of the extension the character and aspect of
his/her native and original vegetation. Nevertheless, also in the matter of his
plants and trees, Australia anchors it owes a to be considered a lot
old style and continent of baton-in-the-mud. The strange one