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... Cuvier's classification of the series of strata , with their extraneous fossils , reckoning up- wards from the primitive rocks ; after which , we shall assign the reasons , on physiological data , for the occa- sional deviations from ...
... Cuvier's classification of the series of strata , with their extraneous fossils , reckoning up- wards from the primitive rocks ; after which , we shall assign the reasons , on physiological data , for the occa- sional deviations from ...
Page 71
... Cuvier observes , that the lowest and most level parts of the earth , when penetrated to a very great depth , exhibit nothing but horizontal strata , com- posed of various substances , and containing , almost all of them , innumerable ...
... Cuvier observes , that the lowest and most level parts of the earth , when penetrated to a very great depth , exhibit nothing but horizontal strata , com- posed of various substances , and containing , almost all of them , innumerable ...
Page 73
... Cuvier , as given on a preceding page . As to the intermixtures of fossil stratification as given in Cuvier's table , placing fossil shells and corals IMMEDIATELY next to that of the primitive rock , they cannot be accounted for on the ...
... Cuvier , as given on a preceding page . As to the intermixtures of fossil stratification as given in Cuvier's table , placing fossil shells and corals IMMEDIATELY next to that of the primitive rock , they cannot be accounted for on the ...
Page 74
... Cuvier himself , that the animals , to which those bones belonged , must have lived and died peaceably on the spot where we now find them : and the propriety of this inference is further established by the nature of the earthy matter in ...
... Cuvier himself , that the animals , to which those bones belonged , must have lived and died peaceably on the spot where we now find them : and the propriety of this inference is further established by the nature of the earthy matter in ...
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... Cuvier estimates , that rather more than three fourths of these bones belong to species of bears now extinct ; while one half or two thirds of the remaining fourth belong to a species of hyena . A very small number of these remains ...
... Cuvier estimates , that rather more than three fourths of these bones belong to species of bears now extinct ; while one half or two thirds of the remaining fourth belong to a species of hyena . A very small number of these remains ...
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