 | James Rennie - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...historical records ; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge antlers of the wild stag, and horns of the wild bull. Of caves now open to the day in * Lyell's Geology, vol. ip 154. various... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...historical records ; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge antlers of the wild stag, and horns of the wild bull. Of caves now open to the day in * Lyell's Geology, vol. ip 154. various... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...historical records ; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge...occur in abundance; and they indicate that, at periods extremely modern in the history of the globe, the ascendency of man, if he existed at all, had scarcely... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...historical records ; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge...existed at all, had scarcely been felt by the brutes.* No inhabitant of the land exposes himself to so many dangers on the waters as man, whether in a savage... | |
 | William Scott - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...with historical records; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge...comparatively modern in the history of the globe, the ascendency of man, if he existed at all, had scarcely been felt by the brutes." thus vouchsafed to... | |
 | Arthur James Johnes - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...historical records, and when we lay bare the " most superficial covering of peat we sometimes find therein " the canoes of the savage, together with...ascendancy of man, if he existed at all, had scarcely u " been felt by the brutes." * (See an analogous argument of Berkeley for the Recent Origin of Man,... | |
 | James Gray - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 242
...present economy. Now when we lay open the most superficial covering of a peat-moss, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge antlers of the wild stag, or the horns of the wild bull of our recent species. We find these things there, because this Peat Formation... | |
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... the abode of wild beasts. The archives of nature are in perfect accordance with historical records ; and when we lay open the most superficial covering of peat, we sometimes find therein the canoes of the savage, together with huge antlers of the... 