 As we descend deeper and deeper into this region, the inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach to an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.  The Unnatural History of the Sea - Seite 295von Callum Roberts - 2007 - 456 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | George Charles Wallich - 1862 - 194 Seiten
...its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach toward an abyss where life is either extinguished or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering existence. Its confines are yet undetermined, and it is in the exploration of this vast deep-sea region... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - 408 Seiten
...deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished...undetermined, and it is in the exploration of this vast deep-sea region that the finest field for submarine discovery yet remains. Such is the general subdivision... | |
 | 1871 - 624 Seiten
...region," he remarks, " its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but few sparks to mark its lingering presence." Edward Forbes's dredgings did not range below 230 fathoms... | |
 | 1882 - 966 Seiten
...deeper, its inhabitants become more and more modified and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach toward an abyss where life is either extinguished or exhibits...but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence." This skepticism, however, was becoming weaker under the testimony of living specimens that were from... | |
 | Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys - 1873 - 592 Seiten
...in this region, its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished,...but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.'" Forbes pointed out that the groups of animals having their maximum development in these several zones... | |
 | C. WYVILLE THOMSON - 1873 - 620 Seiten
...in this region, its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished,...or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence."1 Forbes pointed out that the groups of animals having their maximum development in these... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1873 - 680 Seiten
...light, food, etc., it became a generally accepted dogma that in the deeper abysses of the ocean, " life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence." Yet even at this time evidence actually existed of life in the sea at a far greater depth than 300... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1874 - 342 Seiten
...deep-sea corals, supposed to reach only some 100 fathoms down, the inhabitants of the region " became more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating...but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence." If Edward Forbes had lived but a few years more, with what hearty delight would he, above all men,... | |
 | 1874 - 354 Seiten
...deep-sea corals, supposed to reach only some 100 fathoms down, the inhabitants of the region " became more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating...but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence." If Edward Forbes had lived but a few years more, with what hearty delight would he, above all men,... | |
 | 1874 - 404 Seiten
...•fifty fathoms to an unknown depth, in which life, as Forbes "thought, becomes gradually more scarce, " indicating an approach towards an abyss where life...but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence." Forbes' investigations were mainly carried on in the Mediterranean and -(Egean seas ; but these land-locked... | |
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