 During these ages of reptiles, neither the carnivorous nor lacustrine mammalia of the tertiary periods had begun to appear ; but the most formidable occupants, both of land and water, were crocodiles and lizards, of various forms, and often of gigantic...  Exhibition ... - Page 211837Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...swarmed in the ocean ; and Megatheria, to whom, in magnitude the mammoth is a lamb, and in ferocity die tiger a kitten, roamed on the shore in frightful multitudes....disappeared, and man became its proprietor and lord. The moral geologist of a future age, looking backward through a long vista of time, till he reaches... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1836 - 632 pages
...of land and water, were Crocodiles, and Lizards ; of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence, and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world. When we see that so large and important a range has been assigned to reptiles among the * The oldest... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...both of land and water, were crocodiles and lizards ; of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world.' At this period what are now the temperate regions of southern England (the Weald of Sussex and Dorsetshire,... | |
 | Books - 1836 - 666 pages
...both of land and water, were crocodiles and lizards, of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world." There are regions in England which are now the most genial and highly cultivated, that were once covered... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...both of land and water, were crocodiles and lizards ; of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world.' At this period what are now the temperate regions of southern England (the Weald of Sussex and Dorsetshire,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...of land and •water, were crocodiles and lizards ; of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world.' At this period what are now the temperate regions of southern England (the Weald of Sussex and Dorsetshire,... | |
 | George Fairholme - Bible and geology - 1837 - 490 pages
...condition of our / planet, whilst stratification was in progress;" (p. 126) and of " gigantic lizards, fitted to endure the turbulence, and CONTINUAL convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world;" (p. 166) and yet, we are told that we ought to judge of the mode in which the existing state of tlie... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1838 - 524 pages
...both of land and water, were crocodiles and lizards, of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world. " When we see that so large and important a range has been assigned to reptiles among the former population... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1837 - 674 pages
...this manner. The earth was the paradise of lizards "of various forms, and often of gigantic statue, fitted to endure the turbulence, and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world." — " We shall view them with less contempt, when we learn from the records of geological history,... | |
 | William Humble - Geology - 1843 - 312 pages
...of land and water, were crocodiles, and lizards ; of various forms, and often of gigantic stature, fitted to endure the turbulence, and continual convulsions of the unquiet surface of our infant world." Upon the whole, it is in the oolitic period, between the eras of the red sandstones and the greensands,... | |
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