This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...shores. Finally, it is in the lias that we meet with the bones of those strange beings, half-fish, half-crocodile, whose presence denotes the termination of the exclusive reign of Neptune, and whose colossal dimensions show what were then the power and development of the animal kingdom. The most extraordinary of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...shores. Finally, it is in the lias that we meet with the bones of those strange beings, half-fish, half-crocodile, whose presence denotes the termination of the exclusive reign of Neptune, and whose colossal dimensions show what were then the power and development of the animal kingdom. The most extraordinary of the amphibious monsters which then infested the seas and shores were, undoubtedly, the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus. Cuvier, guided by those admirable laws of the correlation of organs whose discovery is the glory of comparative anatomy, has furnished a complete description of these fantastic beings, which of all the fossil animals least resemble those we were previously acquainted with, and are best adapted to surprise the naturalist by combinations of structure that, without doubt, would appear incredible to any person unable to examine them with his own eyes. DlPlACANTHUS STBIATUS. In the former genus, we see, says Cuvier, a dolphin's snout, crocodile's teeth, the head and sternum of a lizard, a whale's fins--but four of them--and, finally, the vertebrae of a fish. In the second, with the whale's fins are combined a lizard's head, and a long neck like a serpent's body: such are the marvels which the plesiosaurus and the ichthyosaurus now come to offer to our notice, after having been ensepulchred for so many thousands of years SOME REMARKABLE TYPES. 210 under enormous masses of stone and marble; for it is to the secondary period that they belong. They are oidy found in these banks of marly stone or grayish marble filled with pyrites and ammonites, or in the oolites, all formations of the same period as the mountain-chain of the Jura. It is in England that their remains are specially abundant; and it is to the zeal of our English naturalists...
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Add this copy of The Mysteries of the Ocean. From the French Ofarthur to cart. $285.47, Sold by J. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ottawa, ON, CANADA, published by London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1870.
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London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1870
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London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1870
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Tall8vo, 24.5cm, 2nd edition, revised, xii, 470p., with 130 illustrations from engravings by W. Freeman& J. Noel, index, in full contemporary polished tan calf, gilt decoratedraised bands, gilt border, corner and centre panel decorations, crushedblack morocco label, double gilt ruled borders on the boards, gilt innerdentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., Prize book plate on front pastedown & gilded Royal Military College emblem on the upper cover, unobtursive damp stains on the front cover, else a near fine copy. (sgc) The prize bookplate reads: "Sergeant A.G.G. Wurtele. Prize. -MilitaryTopography and Civil Surveying. VI Class. January 1878." (withhand-colour R, M.C. crest). Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele was in thefirst graduating class from R.M.C., one of the "Old Eighteen". The bookis in fine bindings with the crest displaying the "mailed arm" and motto"Truth, Duty, Valour" both instituted in 1876.
