1831 - 1841 .] 
THE MEGATHERIUM. 
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Awful Changes ! 
Man Found Only in a Fossil State; Reappearance of 
Ichthyosauri. 
“ A change came o’er the spirit of my dream.”—B yron. 
A Lecture. —“You will at once perceive,” continued Professor 
Ichthyosaurus, “ that the skull before us belonged to some of the lower 
order of animals ; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws 
trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have 
procured food.” 
still to be seen there, but likely to be removed by-and-by. 
Buckland made out that the beast lived on the ground 
by scratching for yams and potatoes , and was covered 
like an armadillo by a great coat of mail, to keep the dirt 
from getting into his skin, as he threw it up. As he was 
as big as an elephant, the notion of some that he burrowed 
