The frozen muddy sediments once lay nearly one and a half kilometers beneath the Greenland ice sheet.

冻结的泥质沉积物曾格陵兰岛冰盖下近1。5公里处。

On the slope was Knight, his hat on his head. He was on his hands and knees, trying to climb back to the level ground. The rain had wetted the shaly surface of the incline.

斜坡上是奈特，他的帽子戴在头上。他手脚并用，试图爬水平地面。雨水打湿了斜坡的泥质表面。

They burdened this earth a thousand ages before man appeared, but their fossil remains, found in the argillaceous limestone called by the English the lias, have enabled their colossal structure to be perfectly built up again and anatomically ascertained.

在人类出现之前一千多年前， 它们就给地球带来了，在英国人称为“利亚斯” 的泥质石灰岩中发现的化石遗迹，使它们的巨大结构能够再次完美地建立起来， 并在解剖学上得到确定。