The Philosophical Magazine: Or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural History and General Science, Volume 2Richard Taylor and Company, 1827 - Physics |
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Page 458 - affect soils of this description. If we attempt to pourtray the animals of this ancient country, our description will possess more of the character of a romance, than of a legitimate deduction from established facts. Turtles;' of various kinds, must have been seen on the banks of its
Page 458 - where the common ferns so generally prevail. But the loftier vegetables were so entirely distinct from any that are now known to exist in European countries, that we seek in vain for any thing at all analogous without the tropics. The
Page 458 - creation presents us with no fit objects of comparison. Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times as large as the largest crocodile, having jaws, with teeth equal in size to the