 When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed to this planet would permit, it seems perverse to declare it the same, from a partial resemblance of their tusks and bones. But to whatever...  Sporting Magazine - Page 2501803Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed...animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain such a ope has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings It should have... | |
 | Richard Llwyd - 1804 - 96 pages
...volume of the elephant, as M. de .Bufton has admilted ; and to whatever creature these .remains helong, it is certain such a one has existed in America ; and that it was the largest of ull terrestrial heings yet known. Encydop. * The late Duchess of Kingston (Miss Chudleigh) heing stopped... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their natures, as far as the extent of the scale of animal life, allowed...whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such an one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 476 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their natures, as far as the extent of the scale of animal life, allowed...to this planet, would permit, it seems perverse to declaro it the same, from a partial resemblance of their tusks and bones. But to whatever animal we... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed...resemblance of their tusks and bones. But to whatever armu.-i we ascribe these remains, it is certain such a one has existed in America, and that it was... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...Holston, and they have been found as far north as the arctic circle.' Mr. Jefferson concludes, that, ' To whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is...existed in America, and that it was the largest of all the terrestrial beings of which any traces have ever appeared.' Notes on the State of Virginia, p.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Crea43 lor has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed...certain such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings. It should have sufficed to have rescued the earth it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 308 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed...would permit, it seems perverse to declare it the snme, from a partial resemblance of their tusks and bones. But to whatever animal we ascribe these... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...that of the other in the extreme of cold. When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed...certain such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings. It should have sufficed to have rescued the earth it... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Health resorts - 1870 - 322 pages
...adopts the calculation of Buffon, as " five or six times the cubic volume of the elephant," and adds: " But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it...certain such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings." And to reinforce his speculation that such a creature... | |
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