Notice of Dr. MantelVs Medals of Creation. 133 



Alabama imbedded in tertiary limestone, and more recently a 

 very perfect skeleton imbedded in clay. 



The fossil oxen appear to have been one third larger than the 

 modern; the horns were more massive, and one of them meas- 

 ured over 4 feet across at the widest expansion. The fossil elk 

 of Iceland was 6 feet high, 9 feet long, 9J to the top of the 

 horn, and the space between the antlers was in some cases 12 

 feet. Fossil bones of the giraffe have been found in France, 

 the camel and giraffe in the Sivalick mountains in India. 



The author remarks, somewhat to our surprise, "that the mas- 

 todon and elephant can scarcely be regarded as generically dis- 

 tinct ; for the dental organs present every modification of struc- 

 ture, from that of the mastoid tubercles of the tooth of the mas- 

 todon, to the vertical laminee of cement, enamel, and dentine of 

 the elephant." The gigantic mastodon of Mr. Koch, (his Mis- 

 sourium,) now in the British Museum, proves, as is stated by Dr. 

 Mantell, that all the bones and teeth, apparently of several spe- 

 cies, and as some have supposed of distinct genera, belong but 

 to one grand mastodon. 



The Dinotherium, the largest of terrestrial quadrupeds, was 

 18 feet long ; this animal had a proboscis, and two tusks curved 

 downward in the lower jaw. 



The Paleotheria, the Megatherium, the Marsupials, the larger 

 Carnivora, the bone caverns, &c. are too familiar to require a no- 

 tice in this rapid abstract. 



The/oss^7 Quadrumana or monkeys, appear to have been the 

 prelude to man. The ape has been found fossil in France, in 

 the Himalayas, in the Brazils, and in England. 



A gigantic quadrumanous animal appears to have walked the 

 groves of India at the period of the early tertiary — a cotempo- 

 rary with the colossal tortoise, Sivatherium and mastodon of the 

 plains, and the Hippopotami of the marshes and rivers. 



The fossil monkey of South America was four feet high. 



Of the author's very interesting and instructive geological ex- 

 cursions in his own country we cannot give any abstract, and 

 indeed they hardly admit of abridgment. His regular work he 

 terminates with the following beautiful and impressive remarks. 



" Ascending from the granite, that shroud which conceals for- 

 ever from human ken the earliest remains of the earth's physical 

 drama, the first glimpses we obtain of animated nature are a 



