Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . --three vertcbrse;while living reptilesonly have fromthree to eight. Itstrunk and tail re-semble those of aquadruped. Thetail was shoit, butthe paddles long. In the foie paddleof the plesiosaurusare all tiie essential,parts of a humanarm, — the scapula,humerus, radius,and ulna, the bonesof tlie carpus andmetacarpus, and thephalanges for fivefingers,— a proph-ecy (was it not?) oft he wonder-workingarm and hand ofman. With a long,arched neck, likethat of a swan, ,uru8 doiichodeiru^ ^j^^ slieltcrcd bays of those old oceans grace
Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . --three vertcbrse;while living reptilesonly have fromthree to eight. Itstrunk and tail re-semble those of aquadruped. Thetail was shoit, butthe paddles long. In the foie paddleof the plesiosaurusare all tiie essential,parts of a humanarm, — the scapula,humerus, radius,and ulna, the bonesof tlie carpus andmetacarpus, and thephalanges for fivefingers,— a proph-ecy (was it not?) oft he wonder-workingarm and hand ofman. With a long,arched neck, likethat of a swan, ,uru8 doiichodeiru^ ^j^^ slieltcrcd bays of those old oceans gracefully paddled the plesiosaurus,. LECTURFS ON- GEOLOHY. 70 diirting down its small head, and catching liiinyprey (hat constituted its foud; lor within its lih- havebeen found the remains of the fislxs dh wliicli it fod. The most extraordinary animal of this time, and I hadalmost said of any time, was the pterodact/jle ( wiii;^), from the Greek words pteron, awing, amidaklulos, a finger. Fig. 25.
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