... feet long and wide. Here the prodigious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so dismal an appearance, as to lead Esper to speak of it as a fit temple for a god... The Book of Nature - Página 68por John Mason Good - 1826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 páginas
...about three-and-forty feet long and wide. Here the prodigous quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produce so dismal an appearance, as to become a perfect model of a temple for a god of the dead. Here... | |
| James Parkinson - 1822 - 398 páginas
...grotto above forty feet long? and wide. Here the prodigious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones; and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so dismal an appearance, as to lead Esper to speak of it as " a model ibr a temple for a god... | |
| Granville Penn - 1825 - 440 páginas
...as reported by Professor Jameson. "Here the prodi" gious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and " other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so " dismal an appearance, as to lead Esper to speak of it as a fit temple " fora god of the... | |
| 1834 - 438 páginas
...caves alone, indr ed, according to M. Esper, the enormous mass of animal earth, the prodigious number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping...bony remains might be removed, and numerous bags be filled with fossil teeth, almost without being missed. The fossil deer and elk tribe form also a very... | |
| Francis Fellowes - 1836 - 174 páginas
...the dust of death." A writer remarks, " Here the prodigious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so dismal an appearance as to lead Esper to speak of it as a fit temple for a god of the dead.... | |
| Charles Tylor - 1852 - 370 páginas
...adventurous explorer into another large grotto, where the immense quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced a truly dismal effect. Hundreds of cart-loads of bony remains covered the floor; and even... | |
| 1881 - 590 páginas
...about three-ani-forty long and wide. Here the prodigious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so dismal an appearance as to lead M. Esper to speak of it as a perfect model for a temple... | |
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