Thoughts On Some Important Points Relating to the System of the World
Thoughts On Some Important Points Relating to the System of the World
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But the explanation, which thus meets every difiiculty in the case of a single atoll, can account for their diffusion over any extent, or in whatever numbers. Suppose, for instance, that these islands of ours had, in the course of the muta- bility of Nature, passed through their epoch of stability, and were now slowly subsiding. In the course of centuries — their mainland havins: sunk under the confluence of the Atlantic and German Oceans — there would remain, of their pre- sent greatness, only... a number of islets, constitut- ed by our mountains, around which we may fancy coral fringes to begin to grow. Now — sub- sidence continuing — the lowest peaks would first disappear, bequeathing only an atoll as their memorial, and although Ben Nevis might remain for centuries longer, with its crest above the 160 AREAS OP ELEVATION.
waters, it, too, would be submerged, and we should have no other trace of its existence. The area of Great Britain would thus be changed into a sea of circles of coral, presenting, in miniature, what exists at present over an immense expanse of the Pacific.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But the explanation, which thus meets every difiiculty in the case of a single atoll, can account for their diffusion over any extent, or in whatever numbers. Suppose, for instance, that these islands of ours had, in the course of the muta- bility of Nature, passed through their epoch of stability, and were now slowly subsiding. In the course of centuries — their mainland havins: sunk under the confluence of the Atlantic and German Oceans — there would remain, of their pre- sent greatness, only... a number of islets, constitut- ed by our mountains, around which we may fancy coral fringes to begin to grow. Now — sub- sidence continuing — the lowest peaks would first disappear, bequeathing only an atoll as their memorial, and although Ben Nevis might remain for centuries longer, with its crest above the 160 AREAS OP ELEVATION.
waters, it, too, would be submerged, and we should have no other trace of its existence. The area of Great Britain would thus be changed into a sea of circles of coral, presenting, in miniature, what exists at present over an immense expanse of the Pacific.
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