 How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits of a coral island ;— who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth,— of a slope higher than a beach,...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 283by James Dwight Dana - 1872 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - Science - 1899 - 450 pages
...with the exception of foreign rats or mice, —fresh water barely enough for household purposes,—no streams, nor mountains, nor hills ? How much of the...conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth,—of a slope higher than a beach,—of a change of seasons beyond a variation in the prevalence... | |
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