 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...Cuvier, that this animal vas of a different species from the mastodon, or American mammoth. Its bones have been found in the alluvial soil near London,...and that they are frequently imbedded in alluvial toil, containing- marine productions. The skeletons are seldom complete ; but the following interesting... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...Cuvier, that this animal was of a different species from the mastodon, or American mammoth. Its bones have been found in the alluvial soil near London,...and that they are frequently imbedded in alluvial toil, containing marine production. The skeletons are seldom complete ; but the following interesting... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...found in North and South America, and abundantly in Asiatic Russia. Pallas says, that from the L)on to the Tchutskoiness, there is scarcely a river that...mammoth, and that they are frequently imbedded in aiIweial soil, containing' marine production. The skeletons are seldom complete; but the following... | |
 | Joseph Holdsworth - 1857 - 254 pages
...rhinoceros; those situated opposite to the Lena are said to be almost composed of them and fossil wood. Pallas says, that from the Don to the Tchutskoiness,...remains of the mammoth, and that they are frequently embedded in alluvial soil, containing marine productions. In an ice bank near the mouth of that river,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 668 pages
...empire, states that from the river Don to Tchntskoiness, there is scarcely a river that does not exhibit the remains of the mammoth, and that they are frequently imbedded in alluvial soil containing marine remains. Entire carcases of the animal are seldom found ; but isolated bones have frequently been discovered... | |
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Cuvier, that this animal vas of a different species from the mastodon, or American mammoth. Its bones have been found in the alluvial soil near London, Northampton, Gloucester, Harwich, Norwich, in Salisbury plain, and in other places in England ; they... 