CHAP. 88. (86.)—THE MODE IN WHICH ISLANDS RISE UP.
Land is sometimes formed in a different manner, rising
suddenly out of the sea, as if nature was compensating the
earth for its losses[1], restoring in one place what she had
swallowed up in another.
1. "Paria secum faciente natura." This appears to have been a
colloquial or idiomatic expression among the Romans. See Hardouin in
Lemaire, 1. 412.