Crocodile? Secure within the panoply of his
bony armour, where was the enemy that would
dare encounter this Leviathan of the Pampas?
or, in what more powerful creature can we find
the cause that has effected the extirpation of
his race?
His entire frame was an apparatus of colossal
mechanism, adapted exactly to the work it had to
do; strong and ponderous, in proportion as this
work was heavy, and calculated to be the vehicle
of life and enjoyment to a gigantic race of quadrupeds
; which, though they have ceased to be
counted among the living inhabitants of our
planet, have, in their fossil bones, left behind
them imperishable monuments of the consummate
skill with which they were constructed.
Each limb, and fragment of a limb, forming
co-ordinate parts of a well adjusted and perfect
whole; and through all their deviations from
the form and proportion of the limbs of other
quadrupeds, affording fresh proofs of the infinitely
varied, and inexhaustible contrivances of
Creative Wisdom.
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