but not of such vast changes in the position and extension of our continents, as to have united them within the recent period to each other and to the several intervening oceanic islands.
baina ez gure kontinenteen kokaera eta hedaduran halako aldaketa izugarririk, oraintsuko aldietan kontinenteak elkarrekin eta tarteko ozeanoko irlekin bat eginik egon ahal izateko adinakorik, izan den frogarik.