| 874 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. For in consequence of the hollow, tubular structure of their bones, and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. For in consequence of the hollow tubular structure of their bones and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 584 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will be submerged so as to become preserved in sedimenary deposits. In consequence of the hollow tubular structure of their bones and the quantity... | |
| 1861 - 1148 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. In consequence of the hollow tubular structure of their bones, and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| David Masson - 1850 - 444 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. In consequence of the hollow tubular structure of their bones, and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. In consequence of the hollow tubular structure of their bones, and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 Seiten
...quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; and if they chance to be drowned, or to dio when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits. In consequence of the hollow tubular «tructure of their bones, and the quantity of their feathers,... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1870 - 660 Seiten
...them against perishing by numerous casualties to which quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; " and, " if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits," since, from the lightness of the bones, the carcase would remain long afloat, and would be liable to... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1871 - 704 Seiten
...them against perishing by numerous casualties to which quadrupeds are exposed during floods;" and " if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits," since, from the lightness of the bones, the carcass would remain long afloat, and would be liable to... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1872 - 652 Seiten
...them against perishing by numerous casualties to which quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; " and, " if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming...so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits," since, from the lightness of the bones, the carcase would remain long afloat, and would be liable to... | |
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