[70]. Marsupial, from marsupium, a pouch; animals of the fourth order of Cuvier, that have a pouch in which the young are carried.
[71]. Batrachian, from batrachos, a frog; animals in Cuvier’s fourth class of reptiles.
[72]. Cheir, the hand, therion, a wild beast; a wild beast with a foot like a hand.
[73]. From labyrinthus, a labyrinth, and odous, a tooth; so called from the labyrinthine structure of the tooth.
[74]. In some cases we find, corresponding to a set of footmarks, a continuous furrow, presumed to be the impression of a tail dragged along the sand by the animal while walking.
[75]. Ansted’s Ancient World, pp. 125–127.
[76]. Knight’s Cyclopædia of Arts, &c.
[77]. Quarterly Review, May, 1852. Article on Roger de Coverley.
[78]. This is a corruption, we are inclined to think, of the word “layers;” one of those provincial corruptions of the Queen’s English that get stereotyped.
[79]. Buckland’s Bridgewater Treatise. pp. 351, 352.