"Land mass" Quotes from Famous Books
... sufficient to have connected the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere—North America, with Asia and Greenland; and this latter country must have been united with Iceland, and, through the British Islands, with Europe. But, to compensate for this land mass to the north, large portions of Central and Southern Europe were beneath the waves. The proof of this extended mass of land is to be found in the wide distribution of similar animals and plants in the Miocene time. All the chief botanists are agreed that the north Polar region was the ... — The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen |