Chapter XI: Fossil Remains--The Exploration

From the Museum to the Quarry--Fossil Fish in the Limestone
Rocks of Monte Bolca--in the Quarries of Aix--in the Chalk
of Sussex--The Ichthyosaurus or Fish-like Lizard--Gigantic
Dimensions of this Ancient Monster--its Predatory Habits--The
Plesiosaurus--The Megatherium or great Wild Beast--History
of its Discovery--the Mylodon--Profusion of Fossil
Shells--Petrified Trees erect in the Limestone Rock of Portland--Fossil
Plants of the Coal Measures--The Sigillaria--The
Fern--The Calamite--The Lepidodendron--Coal Mine of Treuil--Fossil
Remains afford undeniable Evidence of former Animal
and Vegetable Life--Their Existence cannot be accounted for
by the Plastic Power of Nature--nor can it reasonably be
ascribed to a Special Act of Creation, 172