It probably frequented the river banks, where it fed upon reptiles of smaller size which inhabited the same places.
"More," continued the doctor, "is too general in his descriptions.

He has not a scientific mind, and he gives but few data; yet I can bring before myself very easily all the scenes which he describes, particularly that one in which the megalosaurus approaches, and he rushes to mount the dinoris so as to escape.

I see that river, with its trees and shrubs, all unknown now except in museums--the vegetation of the Coal Period--the lepidodendron, the lepidostrobus, the pecopteris, the neuropteris, the lonchopteris, the odontopteris, the sphenopteris, the cyclopteris, the sigellaria veniformis, the sphenophyllium, the calamites--" Melick started to his feet.
"There, there!" he cried, "hold hard, doctor.

Talking of calamities, what greater calamity can there be than such a torrent of unknown words?
Talk English, doctor, and we shall be able to appreciate you; but to make your jokes, your conundrums, and your brilliant witticisms in a foreign language isn't fair to us, and does no credit either to your head or your heart." The doctor elevated his eyebrows, and took no notice of Melick's ill-timed levity.
"All these stories of strange animals," said Oxenden, "may be very interesting, doctor, but I must say that I am far more struck by the account of the people themselves.

I wonder whether they are an aboriginal race, or descendants of the same stock from which we came ?" "I should say," remarked the doctor, confidently, "that they are, beyond a doubt, an aboriginal and autochthonous race." "I differ from you altogether," said Oxenden, calmly.
"Oh," said the doctor, "there can be no doubt about it.