 ... reddish-brown wool, which grew among the roots of the long hair. These afford an undeniable proof that this animal had belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting a cold region, with which we are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in...  Essay on the Theory of the Earth - עמוד 273מאת Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 348 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1813 - 580 דפים
...now unacT quainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It if also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." But one of the most important and interesting of the observations for which we are indebted to the... | |
 | 1814 - 550 דפים
...are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." But one of the most important and interesting of the observations fur which we are indebted to (he... | |
 | Robert Johnston - 1816 - 410 דפים
...region, with which we are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that this enormous animal must have...frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." " It is worthy of remark," adds the accurate translator of M. Cuvier, " thai although fossil bones... | |
 | William Phillips - 1816 - 222 דפים
...unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zoi'c. It is also evident that thisenonnous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death. At A T tce and the Antibes, the rock also contained the bones of the horse. At Corsica, the rock contains... | |
 | 1818 - 384 דפים
...are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the tnument of its death.* _ TORNADOS. TORNADOS are violent gusts of wind, which come from the eastward,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 דפים
...cold region, with which we are unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that this enormous animal must have...been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death. FO6SIL SHELLS. AT whatever elevations these shells may have been found, and however remote from the... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1826 - 102 דפים
...animal was so fat and well fed, that its belly hung down below• the joints of the knees *." " It is evident that this enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." " The wildest speculator " will scarcely maintain that an animal could have existed in so perfect •a... | |
 | 1814 - 684 דפים
...now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident," says he, " that this enormous animal must have •been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." All this goes to prove that there were several catastrophes and overvvhelmings prior to the last return... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 דפים
...region, with which we are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that this enormous animal must have...valuable present to the philosophical world. In the meantime, from the drawing I have now before me, I have every reason to believe that the sockets of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 דפים
...death. Mr. Adaim, who bestowed the utmost care in collecting all the parts of this animal,jproposes to publish an exact account of its osteology, which...time, from the drawing I have now before me, I have eieij reason to believe that the sockets of the teeth of this northern elephant have the same proportional... | |
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