It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.


Principles of Geology (ed. 1833)

Charles Lyell Quotes

It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed...

It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed...

It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed...

It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed...