“The whole island is one forest, & this is so thickly intertwined that it requires great exertion to crawl along. The scenery was very beautiful, & large Magnolias & Laurels & trees covered with delicate flowers ought to have satisfied me. But I am sure all the grandeur of the tropics has not yet been seen by me.”
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
February 20th 1832
