MEMOIRS
I C H T H Y O S A U R I
P L E S IOS A U R I ,
KXTINCT MONSTERS
OF T H E A N C I E N T E A R T H ,
WITH TWENTY-EIGHT PLATES,
COPIED FROM SPECIMENS IN THE AUTHOR'S COLLECTION OF FOSSIL ORGANIC REMAINS.
THOMAS HAWKINS, E s q . F. G. S.
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I believe in, and beai' Immble testimony to tlie Scriptures, that they arc tlic ■■ words of everlasting life" and '■ the wisdom
of God," 1 cannot pretend to understand mucli of tliem, for reasons which tliey themselves offer, much less can I presume
upon tlieir explanation ; but I owe to myself and the reader to say—to prevent any misconception of the spirit and letter of
this book—that I tliink the Mosaic cosmogony intelligible upon this hypothesis ;—oar creation is not e principio, but from
the fourth day or generation of Time, when the lights in the firmament were made ■■ to give light upon the earth." The
antecedent liistory of the planet, as written by Moses, demonstrable by the soundest physics, unshrouds but the gaunt
skeleton of the pre-Adamite epoch, to the clearer comprehension of which nothing can so well serve as the acoimulation of
Fossil Organic Remains.
Fros! the author's
LONDON :
PUBLISHED BY RELFE AND FLETCHER, 17, CORNHILL.
MDCCCXXXIV.