| 1827 - 456 pages
...existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the liz. ard tribe, three or four times as large as the largest crocodile, having jaws equal in size to the incisors of the rhinoceros, and crested with horns ; such a creature must have... | |
| 1827 - 452 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times as large as the largest crocodile, having jaws equal in size to the incisors of the rhinoceros, and crested with horns ; such a creature must have... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1828 - 614 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times...been the iguanodon ! Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much less wonderful; witness the plesiosaurus, which only required wings to be a flying dragon... | |
| 1829 - 442 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit object of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times...equal in size to the incisors of the rhinoceros, and created with horns ; such a creature must have been the Iguanodon ! It is to the indefatigable and... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1829 - 726 pages
...banks of its rivers or lakes, and groups of enormous crocodiles basking in the fens and shallows." with teeth equal in size to the incisors of the rhinoceros,...been the iguanodon ! Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much less wonderful ; witness the plesiosaurus, which only required wings to be a flying dragon... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1833 - 656 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times...been the iguanodon! Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much less wonderful; witness the plesiosaurus, which only required wings to be a flying dragon;... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1833 - 604 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine nn animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times as...the rhinoceros, and crested with horns ; — such % creature must have been the iguanodon ! Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much less wonderful... | |
| William Henry Fitton - 1833 - 116 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation ' presents us with no fit objects, of comparison. ' Imagine an animal of the Lizard tribe, three or ' four times...— ' having jaws, with teeth equal in size to the in' cisors of the Rhinoceros, and crested with horns ; ' such a creature must have been the Iguanodon... | |
| William Williams Mather - 1833 - 164 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe three or four times as large as thu largest croAre there any rocks formed by the coralline polypi among 'the oolitic strata? What are... | |
| 1834 - 772 pages
...magnitude, that the existing animal creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times...to the incisors of the rhinoceros, and crested with horn I Such a creature must have been the iyuanodon. Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much leis... | |
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