| Agriculture - 1822 - 500 pages
...flesh and bones were devoured, we have no black earth ; but instead of it we find in the album graecum, evidence of the fate that has attended the carcases...that the period in which they inhabited these regions * II . Rosenmuller shows that the bears not only lived and died, but were also bom. in the same caverns... | |
| Agriculture - 1822 - 516 pages
...America) and of the wolf, fox, and polecat, and rarely of elephant and rhinoceros.* The bears and hyœna of all these caverns, as well as the elephant, rhinoceros,...the period in which they inhabited these regions* M. Rosenmuller shows that the bears not only lired and died, in the same caverns in which their bones... | |
| English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...bones through the diluvian gravel of high latitudes, over great part of the northern hemisphere, shows that the period in which they inhabited these regions...immediately preceding the formation of this gravel, and that they perished by the same waters which produced it. ' M. Cuvier,' he adds, ' has ascertained... | |
| Agriculture - 1822 - 526 pages
...hones through the diluvian gravel of high latitudes, over great part of the northern hemisphere, shows that the period in which they inhabited these regions,...immediately preceding the formation of this gravel, and that they perished by the same waters- which produced it. M. Cuvier has moreover ascertained, that... | |
| English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...bones ihrongh the diluvian gravel of high latitudes, over great part of the northern hemisphere, shows that the period in which they inhabited these regions...immediately preceding the formation of this gravel, and that they perished by the same waters which produced it. ' M. Cuvier,' he adds, ' has ascertained... | |
| Science - 1822 - 536 pages
...bones through the diluvian gravel of high latitudes, over great part of the northern hemisphere, shows that the period in which they inhabited these regions,...immediately preceding the formation of this gravel, and that they perished by the same waters which produced it. M. Cuvier has moreover ascertained, that... | |
| Arminianism - 1822 - 872 pages
...rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, belong to the same extinct species that occur also fossil in the dilnvian gravel, whence it follows that the period in which they inhabited these regions waa that immediately preceding the formation of this gravel by that transient and universal inundation... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 704 pages
...animals through the diluvian gravel of high latitudes, over great part of the northern hemisphere, shews that the period in which they inhabited these regions,...immediately preceding the formation of this gravel, and that they perished by the same waters which produced it. M. Cuvier has moreover ascertained, that... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1824 - 938 pages
...caverns, as well as the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, belong to the same extinct species which occur also fossil in the diluvian gravel ; whence...formation of this gravel, by that transient and universal deluge which has left traces of its ravages, committed atnoverydistantperiod, over the surface of the... | |
| Europe - 1824 - 940 pages
...caverns, as well as the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, belong to the same extinct species which occur also fossil in the diluvian gravel ; whence...formation of this gravel, by that transient and universal deluge which has left traces of its ravages, committed at no very distant period, over the surface... | |
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