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Updated: May 16, 2025

It is also to be remarked that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for such subsidence, since the enormous masses of matter they have thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

Yet there is one feature about the Thames, of which he can scarcely be too proud, and which is unparalleled perhaps in the world, the often-noticed "forest of masts," extending farther than the eye can reach, and suggesting, not the silence and solitude of the forests with which I have been familiar, but the countless population, the wealth, and the grandeur of Britain; and the might and the majesty of civilized and industrious man.

John McLean - Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory : Volume II.