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Title: The Bible and science
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916
Subjects: Religion and science -- 1860-1899 Evolution Natural history
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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where the Thames now meets the ocean.Beside it grew fir-trees, palms, and plants like someof the Australian ones ; turtles and crocodiles lived nearthe banks, and in the waters swam sharks, sword-fishes,saw-fishes, and sea-snakes, one of which, measuringthirteen feet long, has been found. Near Paris have been found the bones of a bird aslarge as an ostrich, and animals of the hog tribe,but differing from any now living, walked about on thesite of the present Isle of Sheppey. Amongst thesewere the anoplotherium, and the paleotherium, whichwas formerly supposed to resemble the living tapir inthe form of its head and in the short trunk, but hasnow been shown to be lighter and more elegant. Some of these animals seem to stand half waybetween the pachydermata and ruminants, and somewere probably light and graceful, like the gazelle.Marsupials still occurred, and carnivorous animals, thehyena, dog, weasel, as well as the sc(uirrel and ape. In the next period, or Miocene, the climate in the
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Fic 145. •rdlcCt)tlioiiuni maguum, fiom pListti qiiaiiy at \itij-sui-Seine, fiomLa 2\utuie. 288 TERTIARY FOSSILS-MIOCENE—PLIOCENE. northern hemisphere must have been very warm,because the deposits of this period in Greenland, Ice-land, and Spitzbergen, show that beeches, oaks, mag-nolias, walnuts, and vines then flourished within theArctic Circle. At the same period, however, hugeicebergs must have been floating about in NorthernItaly. Amongst the animals, marsupials still occurredin Europe, and, along with the carnivora, we find thedinotherium and mastodon, huge creatures allied tothe elephant, as well as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus,giraffe, and now, for the first time, monkeys. During the next period, the Pliocene, the climateseems to have been getting colder, although the ele-phant, mastodon, and rhinoceros still inhabited Britainat that time. With the pliocene ends the tertiaryepoch. We now come to the Quaternary, or Recentepoch, during which man made his appearance uponthe e

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