. 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. It li ;. 376 with the aquatic cloven-hoofed animal, which Cuvier has called anoplothere, and with its light and grace- ful congeners, the dechobunes and xephiodon, with the great paleotheres, which may be likened to horn- less rhinoceroses, with the more tapiroid lophiodon, with the large peccari-like pachyderm called chcero- potamus, with about a score of other genera and species. L
. 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. It li ;. 376 with the aquatic cloven-hoofed animal, which Cuvier has called anoplothere, and with its light and grace- ful congeners, the dechobunes and xephiodon, with the great paleotheres, which may be likened to horn- less rhinoceroses, with the more tapiroid lophiodon, with the large peccari-like pachyderm called chcero- potamus, with about a score of other genera and species. Long before any discovery had been made of remains of terrestrial animals in the contemporary London and plastic clays, the existence of neighbour- ing dry land had been inferred, from the occurrence in those deposits of bones of crocodiles and turtle^', and from the immense number of fossil seeds and fruits, resembling those of tropical trees, as pandani, cocoa-nut, «fec. The remains of a few of the mam- mals of the ancient palm-groves, that bordered the mighty eocene river or estuary, have since been recovered from its sediments. One of these quadru- peds is a lephiodon, another a nearly-allied pachy- derm, (coryphodon,) larger than any existing tapir; a third (hyracotherium) has the closest affinity to the choeropotamus, but was not much larger than a hare. In a sandy deposit, probably near the margin of the estuary, and where Kingston in Sussex now stands, the remains of a smaller species of hyracothere, about the size of a rabbit, have been found, and both here and in the eocene clay at Sheppey and at f large serpents, like the Brocklesham, â \rQ*«4-/-»TM»rr» rw. 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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