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of them have no living representatives upon the globe. 

 This, to be sure, was nothing more than William Smith 

 had tried all along to establish regarding lower forms of 

 life ; but great monsters appeal to the imagination in a 



THE WAllUEN MASTODON, FOUND NEATC NEWBURG, 

 ON THE HUDSON 



way quite beyond the power of mere shells ; so the an- 

 nouncement of Cuvier's discoveries aroused the interest 

 of the entire world, and the Ossements Fossiles was 

 accorded a popular reception seldom given a work of 

 technical science a reception in which the enthusiastic 

 approval of progressive geologists was mingled with the 

 bitter protests of the conservatives. 



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