The sun had dipped below the horizon as I stepped from the damp deck onto the hard, flat stones of Sydney Cove. The air still carried the salt and a strange, dry dust that did not belong to the lush forests I left behind in South America. Around me, great ships lay anchored like sleeping leviathans, their masts forming a dark forest against the twilight sky. Warehouses loomed heavy and…
Charles Darwin
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“In the evening I walked through the town, and returned full of admiration at the whole scene.”