Miscellaneous Intelligence. ; 281 2 
7 On British Eocene Serpents and the Serpent of the Bible; by 
Professor Owen, (Jameson’s J., xlix, 239,from Owen’s British Reptiles.) 
ew bones of serpents have been found in the superficial stalagmite, . 
and in clefts of caves, in peat bogs, and the like localities, which bring 
their occurrence and deposition within the period of human history. . 
adamitic or pleistocene period, from which formations the remains of 
the Mammoth, Tichorrhine Rhinoceros, great Hippopotamus, and other 
extinct species of existing genera of Mammalia have been so abun- 
dantly obtained. Between the newest and the oldest deposits of the 
tertiary period in geology, there is a great gap in England, the middle 
or miocene formations being very incompletely represented by some 
confused and dubious parts of the crag of fluvio-marine origin in which 
teeth of a mastodon have been found 
to a period much more remote from that at which human history com- 
live. To this desolate region the spirits of the departed were ferried 
97% 
remote from that at which we have any evidence of the existence of 
as the progeny of a transmuted species, degraded from its originally 
. form as the consequence and pun 
0 the temptati 
“i enneae Drs. D’Oyly and 
e direction of the 
‘Ure, erect before this time ; ‘upon thy belly shalt thou go,’ or, ‘ upon 
R 3 . 
ee as some versions have it: 2dly, I 
Provision, ‘and dust shalt thou eat,’ insomuch as creeping Upon the 
8tound, it cannot but lick up much dust together with its food. 
ee S # Macaulay’s History of England, vol. i, p. 5. 
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