 | Edward Hitchcock, Charles Henry Hitchcock - 1862 - 446 pages
...creation lay in the Divine Mind. Wo give a few examples : lizard united tho tooth of a crocodile, a nock of enormous length resembling the body of a serpent...ordinary quadruped ; the ribs of a chameleon, and tho paddles of a whale." The Ichthyosaurus, аз its name denotes, had a close affinity to fishes.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...possessed a lizard's head, a crocodile's teeth, л neck of extraordinary length, resembling the bod^ of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions...ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the ¡midies of a whale. It appears to have lived in shallow ceas and estuaries, and to have breathed air... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 pages
...the ruins of a former world. 606. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile, a neck resembling the body of a serpent, a trunk and tail...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chamelion, and the paddles of a whale. The first specimens were discovered in the lias of Lyme Eegis,... | |
 | David Page - 1865 - 520 pages
...united the teeth of a crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent ; the trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; the ribs resembling those of a chameleon ; and the paddles being like those of the whale. Heulaudite (after... | |
 | Henry Augustus Ward - 1866 - 264 pages
...anomalous that had been found amid the ruins of a former world." " To the head of a Lizard (wrote Buckland) it united the teeth of a Crocodile, a neck of enormous...quadruped, the ribs of a Chameleon, and the paddles of a Wftale." The skull is three times longer than its breadth, and subcompressed. The cranium is quadrate... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 660 pages
...been the most heteroclite, and its characters altogether the moat monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of .1 cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 660 pages
...been the most hétéroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of л caméléon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 440 pages
...crocodile ; its neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent, while the trunk and tail had the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddle of a whale." like the paddles of a whale. They consumed fish, as masses of crushed, and apparently... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 444 pages
...crocodile ; its neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent, while the trunk and tail had the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddle of a whale." AMMONITES. — " These are found at the head of the Flinders, and are a genus of... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1877 - 226 pages
...which attained a length of from twenty to thirty feet, and which ' to the head of a lizard ' unites ' the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length...serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinaryquadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale.' This animal must also have... | |
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Plesiosaurus that Cuvier asserts the structure to have been the most heteroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile, a... 
