 | Georges baron Cuvier - Earth - 1827 - 608 pages
...enable us to solve, and in this discourse we must not apply for information to other sources. This much is certain, that we are now at least in the midst...that of mastodons and megatheria, has come the age in vyland; and in my Researches, vol. iv. p. 193, that of a fragment of a jaw, found in the osseous brecciae... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Earth - 1827 - 622 pages
...enable us to solve, and in this discourse we must not apply for information to other sources. This much is certain, that we are now at least in the midst of a fourth succession of land animals,—that, after the age of reptiles, the age of palaeotheria, the age of mammoths, and that... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 548 pages
...the researches ot geologists. To those practical philosophers we owe the knowledge that we are now in the midst of a fourth succession of land animals : that, after the age of reptiles, the age of palœotheria, the age of mammoths, and that of mastodons, came the age of the human species. Into the... | |
 | William Pengelly - 1868 - 396 pages
...destroyed. no bone of ape or monkey among the inhab. of warm climates — nor of man — This much is certain that we are now at least in the midst of...Mastodons and Megatheria has come the age in which the Hu. species aided by some domestic animals peacably . governs and fertilizes the earth and that it... | |
 | Architecture - 1869 - 550 pages
...of ape or monkey among the inhab. of warm climates — nor of man — This much is certain that \ve are now at least in the midst of a fourth succession...Mastodons and Megatheria has come the age in which the Hu. species aided by some domestic animals peacably governs and fertilizes the earth and that it is... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...now accompany him on the globe, and of which there are no traces among these fossil remains, snrronnd him ? Were the countries in which he lived with them...animals ; that, after the age of reptiles, the age of paleeotheria, the age of mammoths, and that of mastodons and megatheria, has come the age in which... | |
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... of our days it cannot be disputed that the general mass of this Popul. had a very different character — and that the greater part of the races which composed it have been utterly destroyed. no bone of ape or monkey among the inhab. of warm climates... 