 ... reddish-brown wool, which grew among the roots of the long hair. These afford an undeniable proof that this animal had belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting a cold region, with which we are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in...  Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Página 255de Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 431 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1813 - 580 páginas
...now unacT quainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It if also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." But one of the most important and interesting of the observations for which we are indebted to the... | |
 | 1814 - 550 páginas
...are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." But one of the most important and interesting of the observations fur which we are indebted to (he... | |
 | Robert Johnston - 1816 - 410 páginas
...in length, another is thinner bristles, or coarse flexible hair, of a reddish brown wool, which grow among the roots of the long hair. These afford an...frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." " It is worthy of remark," adds the accurate translator of M. Cuvier, " thai although fossil bones... | |
 | William Phillips - 1816 - 222 páginas
...unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zoi'c. It is also evident that thisenonnous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death. At A T tce and the Antibes, the rock also contained the bones of the horse. At Corsica, the rock contains... | |
 | 1818 - 384 páginas
...are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that the enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the tnument of its death.* _ TORNADOS. TORNADOS are violent gusts of wind, which come from the eastward,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 páginas
...proof that this animal had belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting a cold region, with which we are unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the...been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death. FO6SIL SHELLS. AT whatever elevations these shells may have been found, and however remote from the... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1826 - 102 páginas
...animal was so fat and well fed, that its belly hung down below• the joints of the knees *." " It is evident that this enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." " The wildest speculator " will scarcely maintain that an animal could have existed in so perfect •a... | |
 | 1814 - 684 páginas
...now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident," says he, " that this enormous animal must have •been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death." All this goes to prove that there were several catastrophes and overvvhelmings prior to the last return... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 páginas
...another is thinner bristles, or coarse flexible hair, of a reddish-brown colour ; and the third, a reddish-brown wool, which grew among the roots of...valuable present to the philosophical world. In the meantime, from the drawing I have now before me, I have every reason to believe that the sockets of... | |
 | William Martin - 1832 - 504 páginas
...this animal also, had belonged to a race ot. elephants now extinct, inhabiting a cold region ; it was also evident that this enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death. It may be added, that fossil shells at the greatest elevations, and many hundred miles from the sea,... | |
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