. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. I'U. examples of sediments formed in lakes and rivers, (an order of things of which vestiges were first ap- parent towards the close of the primeval period,) and with continual signs of adjacent lands affording numerous forms of plants and insects. The Wealden, of such vast thickness, is indeed exclusively tenanted by land and fresh-water remains ; and yet, although its strata are ful
. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. I'U. examples of sediments formed in lakes and rivers, (an order of things of which vestiges were first ap- parent towards the close of the primeval period,) and with continual signs of adjacent lands affording numerous forms of plants and insects. The Wealden, of such vast thickness, is indeed exclusively tenanted by land and fresh-water remains ; and yet, although its strata are full of plants and gigantic fossil lizards of the period, not one bone of a mammal has been exhumed from them ; while bones of birds make their appearance first only in green-sand and chalk. " We have to work through the whole cretaceous series and its prolific fauna, to take leave, in short, of the secondary rocks, and enter upon the tertiary epochs, before such remains are at all plentiful. Then, for the first time in this incalculably long series of formations, we have before us, on all sides, the bones of the higher order of mammalia; and these having been drifted from adjacent lands, arc constantly associated with the exuvias of marine creatures, which, though of classes known in the earlier formations, are entirely different in species. Animals of every sort abound in each succeeding formation, and exhibit an increasing quantity and variety of both sea and land mammalia, as we ap- proach the superficial accumulations. In the last are entombed the bones of gigantic quadrupeds- quadrupeds which once inhabited our present conti-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bovell, James, 1817-1880. [Toronto? : s. n. ]
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