"By some of these great revolutions the East and West Indian seas may have been driven to Europe, and carried with them foreign plants floating on its waters, which they tore up in their road, and deposited gently in places where the water was but shallow and would soon evaporate."
FOOTNOTES:
[220:A] Anno 1720; page 5.
[227:A] A kind of soft gravelly stone.
[233:A] On this subject see Stenon, Ray, Woodward, and others.
[234:A] See Shaw's Voyages, Vol. ii, pages 40 and 41.
[237:A] See Shaw's Travels.
[240:A] Thevenot, Vol. I, page 25.
[240:B] Voyage of Paul Lucus, Vol. II, page 380.