Underground (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Underground If we had not been long familiarized with the fact, nothing would have seemed more strange than that the ground beneath us should have its peculiar set of inhabitants. We are accustomed to speak of the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air, but we rarely refer to the dwellers underground. And yet to many creatures the soil is their habitual home, just as the water is to fish, or the atmosphere to birds. If we removed them from it they would sicken or die. Nor is this underground habitation confined to particular kinds of animals. Both vertebrate and invertebrate creatures make it their home, and although the latter are more abundant, they are not more wonderfully adapted to their subterranean existence than the former. The soil, like the atmosphere and the sea, receives into its bosom as tenants animals of various classes. The wonderful modification of the finger-bones, covered with skin, which enables a bat to fly, is not a more striking adaptation of means to ends than the peculiar structure of the bones of a mole's forelegs which enables that animal to burrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.