Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 323
rof. Silliman, glorious bipeds, some ten or twelve feet high.In the tertiary strata of the Paris basin, Cuvier found the remainsof several thick skinned animals allied to the tapir, and of othersforming a connecting link between the tapir and the ruminants,or animals chewing the cud—some of these… … marshes and swamps, and was nearly twenty feet long ; the legsare supposed to have been nearly ten feet in length, the head wasof proportional size, and furnished with two large tusks fixed inthe lower jaw, which probably, served the purpose of pickaxes, todig out the roots upon which it fed, and…
Astronomy · Meteorology · Geology · Paleontology
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from La prima-[quinta] parte della luce del dipingere et disegnare, ... (1643)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-laprimaquintapar00pass-356-327.webp)