| Richard Owen - Birds, Fossil - 1846 - 624 pages
...superficial stratified and unstratified deposits, the Mastodon had probably disappeared from England : but gigantic Elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the...we may judge from the abundance of their remains. Two-horned Rhinoceroses, of at least two species, forced their way through the ancient forests, or... | |
| Theology - 1867 - 848 pages
...appreciate at a distance. The population of England at that time was the following, after Owen : " Gigantic elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the...we may judge from the abundance of their remains. Two-horned rhinoceroses, of at least two species, forced their way through the ancient forests, or... | |
| Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1851 - 888 pages
...Mammals—Introduction,) after noticing the probable disappearance of the mastodon from it, that " gigantic elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the...we may judge from the abundance of their remains.. Two-horned rhinoceroses, of at least two species, forced their way through the ancient forests, or... | |
| Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1851 - 752 pages
...Fossil Mammals— Introduction), after noticing the probable disappearance of the mastodon from it, that "gigantic elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Ceylon and Afric», roamed here in herds, if we may judge from the abundance of their remains. Twohorned rhinoceroses,... | |
| 1851 - 706 pages
...old British Lions — as large again as the biggest African species, lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants, of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon, roamed here in herds ; at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible - 1854 - 60 pages
...early days. Tigers, as large again as the biggest Asiatic species, lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon, roamed in herds ; at" least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...early days. Tigers as large again as the biggest Asiatic species, lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon, roamed in herds ; at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible - 1854 - 52 pages
...early days. Tigers, as large again as the biggest Asiatic species, lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon, roamed in herds ; at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 528 pages
...those early days. Tigers as large again as the biggest Asiatic species lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceyloii roamed in herds ; at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the... | |
| Baptists - 1857 - 518 pages
...those early days. Tigers as large again as the biggest Asiatic species lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon roamed in herds ; and at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through... | |
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