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  • I know that Cuvier and Blumenbach have recognised in these bones nothing more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post-tertiary period.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • No doubt in the post-tertiary period considerable commotions were still disturbing the crust of the earth.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • So, then, the dream in which I had had a vision of the prehistoric world, of the tertiary and post-tertiary periods, was now realised.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Exactly the same thing is found by geology in its tertiary and post-tertiary strata: nowhere a mammal, but gigantic birds with rudimentary {70} wings, down to the dinornis, which probably died out in man's time.

    The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

  • At the Museum of La Plata I found that the authorities were practically a unit in regarding his remains of tertiary men and proto-men as being either the remains of tertiary American monkeys or of American Indians from strata that were long post-tertiary.

    Appendix A. The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America 1914

  • What an all-absorbing post-tertiary deposit for future generations, for the crafty antiquarian who deciphers the history of mankind out of kitchen-middens and deformed heaps of forgotten trash!

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • On this Sunday morning he offered a simple evangelical discourse, enhanced by those occasional references to palæozoic and post-tertiary periods which were expected from him, and which he had enough of the wisdom of the serpent to supply.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

  • American Indians from strata that were long post-tertiary.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Cuvier and Blumenbach have recognised in these bones nothing more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post-tertiary period.

    A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

  • No doubt in the post-tertiary period considerable commotions were still disturbing the crust of the earth.

    A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

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