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Updated: June 13, 2025
The groves which formed the coal-beds might have been a fitting habitation for reptiles, birds, and mammals, as such groves are at the present day; yet we see none of the last of these classes and hardly any traces of the two first at that period of the earth. Where the iguanodon lived the elephant might have lived, but there was no elephant at that time.
Mandeville described a picture, in which he appeared to have confidence, of a fight between an Iguanodon and a Megalosaurus, where these huge iron-clad brutes were represented chewing up different portions of each other's bodies in a forest of the lower cretaceous period.
The old fellow clasped our hands, each in turn, while his men cheered louder than ever. It was too late to advance that night, so the Indians settled down into a rude bivouac. On all sides their fires began to glimmer and smoke. Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.
I neglected to "trim boat," I am sorry to add, although admonished to that effect repeatedly by the mariner; and we swamped in four feet of water. I resembled a being of one of the antediluvian eras, when I came to land, finally, and might have been taken for a slimy Iguanodon.
They seem to have floundered up out of Nile mud, like that old, slimy, pre-Adamite brood, the what's-their-name megalosaurus, ichthyosaurus, pterodactyle, iguanodon, and other misshapen abominations, with now and then wreaths of lotus and water lilies round their tusks.
Too honourable to take advantage of this, he swung his books at a distance and said: "You've got to play at the nets, do you hear?" My friend simulated anger. Struggling to get free, he ejaculated: "I'll not be ordered about by an Iguanodon. I'm not that sort of man. O, White, I said I was he, he, ha! sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. I didn't see it in that light "
Before leaving this room the visitor should not fail to notice the Maidstone Iguanodon deposited in a bed of sandstone, and placed beneath the central north window of the room. The bones are disjointed, but the general form of the reptile may be more perfectly seen here than in any other fossil remains of the iguanodon.
The Camptosaur, which was closely related to the Iguanodon in structure, was thirty feet from the snout to the end of the tail, and the head probably stood eighteen feet from the ground. One of the last great representatives of the group in America, the Trachodon, about thirty feet in length, had a most extraordinary head.
This put me on my mettle, and I hastily rattled off a string of animal names embracing both the arctic and the tropic zones, but without much real confidence. "No," said Charlotte, on consideration; "they won't any of 'em quite do. Seems like something lizardy. Did you say a iguanodon? Might be that, p'raps. But that's not British, and we want a real British beast. I think it's a dragon!"
Doe's reply was a laugh, and the question addressed to me: "I say, Ray, do you think it's an Iguanodon?" "Well," said White, striding forward and beginning to swing his books ominously, "if you're asking for trouble, you shall have it." Doe ducked down and raised his right hand to protect his head. "I never said it, White," he affirmed, giggling. "Really, I didn't. You thought I did.
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