1882, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science Chapter , Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven.
1870, Various, Heads and Tales Chapter , But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.
1861, J. Emerson Tennent, Sketches of Natural History of Ceylon Chapter , --Acalephae1 are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar.
