Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . atfragments of eight hundred of them have been dis-covered. A great cave tiger, twice as large as the livingtiger, roamed over England and Europe ; and with thisa smaller tiger, a leopard, a wild-cat, and other animalsof the cat kind. In Great Britain, Europe, and Asia, the remains ofa remarkable carnivorous animal, called a machairodus,have been discovered. This animal was about the sizeof a tiger; and from the size and shape of the canineteeth, which resembled a sword, must have been adestructive creature. At the same time, beavers a
Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . atfragments of eight hundred of them have been dis-covered. A great cave tiger, twice as large as the livingtiger, roamed over England and Europe ; and with thisa smaller tiger, a leopard, a wild-cat, and other animalsof the cat kind. In Great Britain, Europe, and Asia, the remains ofa remarkable carnivorous animal, called a machairodus,have been discovered. This animal was about the sizeof a tiger; and from the size and shape of the canineteeth, which resembled a sword, must have been adestructive creature. At the same time, beavers abounded, of much largersize than the North-American beaver; and an animalallied to it, but still larger, has likewise been found. Fig. 50 represents theskull of a beaver-likeanimal, one - fifth thenatural size. It wasfound near Clyde, species is thelargest of the rodeii-tia ever mammoth appearsto have been veryabundant. It is sup-posed that upwards of two thousand grinders havebeen dredged up by fishermen off the little village of. Castoroides Oliioensis. LECTURES OX I [Iappis])urg in Norfolk, England. The size to ;vliicjithey occasionally attained is indicated by Fig. 51, wliicli I-- M
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