Glimpses Of Florida Ancient Colonial And Modern PDF Download

Excerpt from Glimpses of Florida, Ancient, Colonial and Modern The writer desires to express his obligations to Bryant's "Popular History of the United Stales," and to Campbell's invaluable "Colonial West Florida," from which he has largely culled. Also to the following eminent writers, viz.: Messrs. Fairbanks, Kohl, Harrera, Hildreth, Shea, Martyr, Bancroft, Pagafetta, De Vera, Smith, De Beidman, French, Charlevox, Lascarbot, Brevoort, Murphy, De Barcia, Biddell, Hackett, Laudonnaire, Parkrnan, Hackluyt, and others. Should the reader question the writer's conservative estimate of the antiquity of Florida, he points to the fact that Professor Cope of Philadelphia has a creature which all naturalists are unanimous in pronouncing the first representative of the hoofed animal species. The animal is not alive, neither is it entire, so far as flesh and blood are concerned, but to the paleontologist, who cares only for the fossiled bones, the specimen is perfect. It is not larger than a yearling calf and not nearly so tall, and was found in the Wind River country in Wyoming. Professor Cope named it Phenacodus Primœvus when it was first discovered, giving it as his opinion that it was akin to a specimen which was found several years ago in France (the paleotherium), and which gave Cuvier and the other naturalists so much trouble to classify. At the time of the discovery of the French specimen the savants of Europe decided that it was the ancestor of the hoofed kingdom, but the Wind River fossil, which is easily distinguished as being a type of the same, is believed to be much more ancient. Cope's curiosity was found in rocks belonging to the eocene period, and the time when it grazed on the Western prairies has been placed as far back as 500,000 years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.