Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III

part in the physical history of the globe, and had spread its scions far

and wide. Some alteration of level is not merely indicated by the numerous coral reefs encircling Australia and its island groups, pointing to a similar sinking among them as that already noticed among the smaller Polynesian islands:--The whole characteristics of the soil, the wastes of the interior, the innume...