Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon might reappear in the woods, and the ichthyosaurs in the sea, while the pterodactyl might flit again through umbrageous groves of tree-ferns.


Principles of Geology (Volume 1), Chapter VII (p. 123)

Charles Lyell Quotes

Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon might...

Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon might...

Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon might...

Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon might...