"'...consider that these very small, very remote islands do not possess the superficies for anything considerable in the way of flora or fauna peculiar to themselves. Do but think of the shocking paucity of land birds in Tahiti, so very much greater in mass...'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 234
"'...consider that these very small, very remote islands do not possess the superficies for anything considerable in the way of flora or fauna peculiar to themselves. Do but think of the shocking paucity of land birds in Tahiti, so very much greater in mass...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 234