CONCLUSIONS. 



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last large animal which became extinct before the creation 

 of man.* 



Fig. 170. 



499. It is necessary therefore, to distinguish two periods 

 in the history of the animals now living ; one in which the 

 marine animals were created, and a second, during which 

 the land and fresh-water animals made their appearance, 

 and at their head MAN.! 



CONCLUSIONS. 



500. From the above sketch it is evident that there is a 

 manifest progress in the succession of beings on the surface 



* The above diagram is a likeness of the splendid specimen disin- 

 tered at Newburg, N. Y"., now in the possession of Dr. J. C. Warren, 

 in Boston ; the most complete skeleton which has ever been discovered. 

 It stands nearly twelve feet in height, the tusks are fourteen feet in length) 

 and nearly every bone is present, in a state of preservation truly wonderful. 



t The former of these phases is indicated in the frontispiece, by a nar- 

 row circle, inserted between the upper stage of the Tertiary formation and 

 the Reign of Man properly so called. 

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