 | English essays - 1823 - 714 pages
...presents > lofty arch, in a nearly perpendicular cliff, * " I have stated, that the total qusutity of animal matter that lies within this cavern cannot be computed at less tlun SOOO cubic feet. Now allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual animal, we... | |
 | William Buckland - Caves - 1824 - 378 pages
...matter, that it is occasionally used by the peasants as an enriching manure for the adjacent meadows*. * I have stated, that the total quantity of animal matter...5000 cubic feet; now allowing two cubic feet of dust The exterior of this cavern presents a lofty arch E, in a nearly perpendicular cliff, which forms the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 506 pages
...they will assist to explain the peculiarly undisturbed state in which the interior of this cavern * I have stated that the total quantity of animal matter...that lies within this cavern cannot be computed at leas than 5000 cubic feet ; now allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual animal,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 506 pages
...explain the peculiarly undisturbed state in which the interior of this cavern il:- • • .. • • I have stated that the total quantity of animal matter that lies withiH this cavern cannot be computed at less than 5000 cubic feet ; now allowing two cubic feet of... | |
 | John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...the total quantity of animal matter within this cavern cannot be computed at less than five thousand cubic feet : now, allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual animal, we have, in this single vault, the remains of at least two thousand five hundred bears, a number which... | |
 | George Fairholme - Bible and geology - 1833 - 520 pages
...average, at least, six feet, and " the cubic contents of which must exceed 5000 " feet. If we allow two cubic feet of dust and " bones for each individual animal, we shall have, " in this single vault, the remains of at least 2500 " BEARS, a number which MAY HAVE BEEN " SUPPLIED in the space of 1000... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...enriching manure for the adjacent meadows.' The following is added by the Professor in a note : — ' I have stated, that the total quantity of animal matter...less than 5000 cubic feet ; now allowing two cubic ieet of dust and boue» for each individual animal, we shall have in this single vault the remains... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1836 - 396 pages
...this appalling mass of the dust of death." — Reliq. Diluv. p. 138. Of the same cave, Cuvier says, " I have stated that the total quantity of animal matter...individual animal, we shall have, in this single vault, the remains of at least, 25CO bears." We should think that a single cubic foot of dust is more than... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1841 - 398 pages
...this appalling mass of the dust of death." — Reliq. Diluv. p. 138. Of the same cave, Cuvier says, " I have stated that the total quantity of animal matter that lies within this cavern, cannot bu computed at less than 5000 cubic feet; now, allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1847 - 434 pages
...dust of the earth. Reliq Diluv. p. 138. On the same cave Cuvier says : " I have stated that the total animal matter that lies within this cavern, cannot be computed at less than 5,000 cubic feet. Now, allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual animal, we shall... | |
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I have stated, that the total quantity of animal matter that lies within this cavern cannot be computed at less than 5000 cubic feet. Now, allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual... 
