504 Capt, Cautley and Dr. Falconer on Fossil Quadrumana. 



small Terrapins of the sluggish brooks of Hindoostan, we possess humeri and 

 femora of this tribe (with corresponding fragments of the bucklers) as large 

 as the equivalent bones of the Indian Rhinoceros. As the Pterodactyle more 

 than realized the most extravagant idea of the Winged Dragon, so does this 

 huge Tortoise come up to the lofty conceptions of Hindoo mythology : and 

 could we but recall the monsters to life, it were not difficult to imagine an 

 Elephant supported on its back. 



Suharun Poor, Nov. 24th, 1836. 



