| 1830 - 550 pages
...its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri...the primeval lakes and rivers — air, sea, and land mnst have been strangely tenanted in those early periods of our infant world."— Mr. RC Taylor's Illustrations... | |
| Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and1 gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, —... | |
| John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...sea, and land, must have been strangely tenanted in 88 those early periods of our infant world." The ichthyosaurus deviates from the saurian or lizard.... | |
| John Laurance - Geology - 1835 - 152 pages
...the toad, and fish in a great variety. * " With flocks of pterodactylij observes Dr. Buckland, flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...been strangely tenanted, in these early periods of an infant world !" Many of the animals buried in the lias, appear to have lain but a short time exposed... | |
| 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
...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...tenanted in these early periods of our infant world ' In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians, in the class of reptiles,... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...tenanted in these early periods of our infant world 4 In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians, in the class of reptiles,... | |
| 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
...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...tenanted in these early periods of our infant world ' In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians, in the class of reptiles,... | |
| 1841 - 488 pages
...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and ¡and, must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world. 1Л GH T. No.... | |
| William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book If. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri,...tenanted in these early periods of our infant world."* As the most obvious feature of these fossil reptiles is the presence of organs of flight, it is natural... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri crawling on the shores of the primaeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely... | |
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