reckoned among the members of a forgotten Fauna, extinguished in
the struggle for existence against their great rival,
common sense.


FOOTNOTES

(1) "Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe."
Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, Ed. iv, t.i. p.185.]

(2) "On the Eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes,"
Philosophical Transactions, vol. cxliii.