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Zoology
Alfred Newton
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON
THE ZOOLOGY OF ANCIENT EUEOPE, The subject to which I invite your
attention this evening, possesses, I trust, an interest of its own
sufficient to warrant me in bringing it to your notice. Were it
otherwise and depending alone upon my powers to render it worthy of
consideration, I should hesitate long before I ventured to obtrude
it upon the Philosophical Society of the University of Cambridge.
As it is, I have no small fear lest the theme should suffer in my
hands, and I must therefore crave your utmost indulgence while
making some remarks on the Zoology of Ancient Europe. Many of those
whom I have the honour to address, may probably, at some time or
other, have been led to speculate on what must have been the
condition and appearance of this quarter of the globe at the period
when the rude ancestors of its present civilized inhabitants first
explored its bleak mountains, its trackless forests, its wilds "
immeasurably spread," and its waters hitherto undisturbed by the
plashing oar or the cleaving prow all of which, either through our
own actual observation or the accounts of others, are now so
familiar to us. I shall not try to depict to your imagination the
probable aspect even of the natural features of primitive Europe
though these, in all likelihood, have not undergone much
alteration, still less shall I attempt a complete description of
the wild animals, its ancient denizens; for I believe that as yet
the materials do not exist from which to form anything like a
perfect picture of that remote age. I can only pretend to touch
upon a few salient points, on which light has been already thrown.
But before I proceed further, I must state the limits within which
I intend to confine my present remarks. In the first place, I wish
to treat the subject the Zoology of ...
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