...ground is covered by two species of plants, which, by their joint decay, compose a thick bed of elastic peat. In the Falkland Islands, almost every kind of...coarse grass which covers the whole surface of the islands, becomes converted into this substance.' Whence have all these plants derived their carbon...

...pumila of Brown, and donatia magellanica), which, by their joint decay, compose a thick bed of elastic peat." " In the Falkland Islands almost every kind...coarse grass which covers the whole surface of the island, becomes converted into this substance."* Whence have all these plants derived their carbon...

...ground is covered by two species of plants, which, by their joint decay, compose a thick bed of elastic peat. In the Falkland Islands, almost every kind of plant, even the coarse gross which covers the whole surface of the islands, becomes converted into this substance.' Whence...

...of Brown, and donatia magellan. if a), which, by their joint decay, compose a thick bed of elastic peat." " In the Falkland Islands, almost every kind...coarse grass which covers the whole surface of the island, becomes converted into this substance."* Whence have all these plants derived their carbon...

...pitmila of Brown, and dunatia magellanica), which, by their joint decay, compose a thick bed of clastic peat." "In the Falkland Islands, almost every kind of plant, even the coarse grass which covets the whole surface of the island, becomes converted into ihis substance."* This reasoning appears...

...artificially excavated. Small streams of water, flowing under ground, complete the disorganization of the vegetable matter, and consolidate the whole....this substance: scarcely any situation checks its II.—C growth; some of the beds are as much as twelve feet thick, and the lower part becomes so solid,...

...for.t 149. Peat soils include a large proportion of several counties of Great Britain and Ireland. In the Falkland Islands almost every kind of plant, even the coarse grass which covers the whole of the surface of the islands, becomes converted into this substance. In the Terra del Fuego, nearly...

...appears to be that of the Falkland Islands. In Darwin's ' Journal of Researches ' he says: ' In these islands almost every kind of plant, even the coarse...the land, becomes converted into this substance.' As above stated, such must have been the climate of the southern hemisphere when the northern summer...

...such as prevails in the Falkland Islands at the present day. " In these islands," says Mr. Darwin, " almost every kind of plant, even the coarse grass...the land, becomes converted into this substance." t From the evidence of geology we may reasonably infer that were the difference between our summer...

...thick bed of peat. * * * The climate of the southern part of America appears particularly favorable to the production of peat. In the Falkland Islands...covers the whole surface of the land, becomes converted to this substance ; scarcely any situation checks the growth."* From the polar side of the northern...