Douglas Sladen

“ And deep blue water where the forest came.
What stranger freak hath Nature played than this?
To mould two masterpieces on one plan,
And set the one among the fastnesses
Of mountains, scarce accessible to man ”

“ The commerce of the nations on its wings,
Charles Darwin on his Naturalist's Voyage.
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