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RECAP/TULA TION 
CHAP. 
Recapitulation .—I will recapitulate the principal facts with 
regard to the climate, ice-action, and organic productions of the 
southern hemisphere, transposing the places in imagination to 
Europe, with which we are so much better acquainted. Then, 
near Lisbon, the commonest sea-shells, namely, three species 
of Oliva, a Voluta, and Terebra, would have a tropical character. 
In the southern provinces of France, magnificent forests, entwined 
by arborescent grasses and with the trees loaded with parasitical 
plants, would hide the face of the land. The puma and the jaguar 
would haunt the Pyrenees. In the.latitude of Mont Blanc, but 
on an island as far westward as central North America, tree-ferns 
and parasitical Orchidese would thrive amidst the thick woods. 
Even as far north as central Denmark humming-birds would be 
seen fluttering about delicate flowers, and parrots feeding amidst 
the evergreen woods ; and in the sea there we should have a 
Voluta, and all the shells of large size and vigorous growth. 
Nevertheless, on some islands only 360 miles northward of our 
new Cape Horn in Denmark, a carcass buried in the soil (or 
if washed into a shallow sea, and covered up with mud) would 
be preserved perpetually frozen. If some bold navigator 
attempted to penetrate northward of these islands, he would run 
a thousand dangers amidst gigantic icebergs, on some of which 
he would see great blocks of rock borne far away from their 
original site. Another island of large size in the latitude of 
southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, would be 
“ almost wholly covered with everlasting snow,” and would 
have each bay terminated by ice-cliffs, whence great masses 
would be yearly detached : this island would boast only of 
a little moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its only 
land inhabitant. From our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a 
chain of mountains, scarcely half the height of the Alps, would 
run in a straight line due southward ; and on its western flank 
every deep creek of the sea, or fiord, would end in “ bold and 
astonishing glaciers.” These lonely channels would frequently 
reverberate with the falls of ice, and so often would great 
waves rush along their coasts ; numerous icebergs, some as 
tall as cathedrals, and occasionally loaded with “ no inconsider¬ 
able blocks of rock,” would be stranded on the outlying islets ; 
at intervals violent earthquakes would shoot prodigious masses 
of ice into the waters below. Lastly, some Missionaries 
