For intermediate forms in another continent could not be the connecting links between the mollusks and vertebrates of a distant country, say of England.

In the same strata in which we find the two ends of the chain, and lying between the two ends of the chain, we ought to find the connecting links.

And we ought to find a hundred connecting links for every specimen of distinct species, since Mr.Darwin alleges that they must have lived and died somewhere; and we have seen they must have lived and died right there where they were born, and where they begot their progeny.

The geological strata ought to be full of connecting links.
But when we come to look for them they are not there.

Geology knows nothing about them.