The stranded logs indicated a current from New Zealand.) I remember your pitching into me with terrible ferocity because I said I thought the seed of Edwardsia might have been floated from Chili to New Zealand: now what do you say, my young man, to the three young trees of the same size on one spot alone of the island, and with the cast-up pod on the shore?
If it were not for those unlucky wingless birds I could believe that the group had been colonised by accidental means; but, as it is, it appears by far to me the best evidence of continental extension ever observed.

The distance, I see, is 360 miles.

I wish I knew whether the sea was deeper than between New Zealand and Australia.

I fear you will not admit such a small accident as the wingless birds having been transported on icebergs.

Do suggest, if you have a chance, to any one visiting the Islands again, to look out for erratic boulders there.