. The testimony of the rocks; . that half equal in length the entire body of the boa-constrictor stretch out from bodies mounted on fins likethose of a fish, and ftirnished with tails somewhat resem-bling those of the mammals. Here we see a wingeddragon, that, armed with sharp teeth and strong claws, MOSAIC AND GEOLOGICAL. 167 hixd careered through the air on leathern wings Uke thoseof a bat; there an enormous crocodiUan whale, that,mounted on many-jointed paddles, had traversed, in questof prey, the green depths of the sea; yonder a herbivor-ous lizard, with a horn like that of the rhinoceros
. The testimony of the rocks; . that half equal in length the entire body of the boa-constrictor stretch out from bodies mounted on fins likethose of a fish, and ftirnished with tails somewhat resem-bling those of the mammals. Here we see a wingeddragon, that, armed with sharp teeth and strong claws, MOSAIC AND GEOLOGICAL. 167 hixd careered through the air on leathern wings Uke thoseof a bat; there an enormous crocodiUan whale, that,mounted on many-jointed paddles, had traversed, in questof prey, the green depths of the sea; yonder a herbivor-ous lizard, with a horn like that of the rhinoceros projectingfrom its snout, and that, when it browsed amid the dankmeadows of the Wealden, must have siood about twelvefeet high. All is enormous, monstrous, vast, amid thecreeping and flying things and the great sea monsters ofthis division of the gallery. We pass on into the third and lower division, and anentirely different class of existences now catch the huge mastodon, with his enormous length of body, and Fig. 92. MEGATHERIUM CUVIERI. his tusks projecting from both upper and under jaw, standserect in the middle of the floor; — a giant skeleton. Wesee beside him the great bones of the megatherium,—thighbones eleven inches in diameter, and claw-armed toes morethan two feet in length. There, too, ranged species beyondspecies, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderousskull of the diuotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower 168 THE TWO RECOllDS, jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and thatmust liave dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots andbulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. There also are the
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