Capitolo 35
States--cried of which house is in the heats and damp regions
the earth. But there were also representatives of the tropical one
regions--as you fig tree-plant with trees, cinnamon-trees and camphor-trees:
these what time they grow in tropical countries they are found. Fruit-trees
of the cherry, plum and kind of almond you/he/she would also be seen.
Prof. Heer points out as all this you/he/she should convince us that a
the great part of Europe, in the age of possessed Miocene a climate
not otherwise from that of Madeira or Canary to-day of Islands.
He calls special attention to the fact that these trees were
almost all of evergreen kind, and that a severe winter is able
destroy them. He finds one hundred and twenty-one kind of the
Moderate zone--kind of which you/he/she can sustain a moderate amount
cold, but not very warm and dry climates. He finds eighty-five
kind of tropical plants that you/they could not possibly live where
the Winters are severe. Mixed with these it was almost three
one hundred kinds whose the natural house is in the warm one, moderate
the earth's portions. The only way you can explain this motley
assemblage of trees is, to suppose that in that what time Europe is
it was a free climate from extremes, allowing the trees to put
before the flowers and it bears fruit the whole circle of year. "Remembering us to,"
it says Prof. Heer, "of those fortunate zones where Nature never
it goes to remain."<35>
Illustration of Mammals of Miocene.-----------
I/you/he/she now allow us to ask as to the animals that have erred through these
great forests that we am describing. The period of Miocene
wide on an elapsed of the long time, and considerable changes took
puts among the animals that belong to the different parts of this
age. We will only give a general contour for the whole period.
The marsupials lingered long in the initial phases of this
period, and then it disappeared from Europe. The rhino both
it foresees in the initial phases, and it continued through the whole one
age. We meet there in these animals of period of the kind of elephant, two