THE

BOOK OF THE GREAT SEA-DRAGONS,

ICHTHYOSAURI AND PLESIOSAURI

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GEDOLIM TANINIM, OF MOSES

EXTINCT MONSTERS OF THE ANCIENT EARTH

With Thirty Plates

COPIED FROM SKELETONS IN THE AUTHORS COLLECTION OF FOSSIL ORGANIC REMAINS

(DEPOSITED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM)

BY

THOMAS HAWKINGS ESQ. F.G.S. ETC.

     Berossus, the Chaldean saith. " A Time when the Universe was darkness and water, and wherein certain Animals of frightful and compound forms were generated. There were Serpents and other Creatures with the mixed shapes of one another, of which pictures are kept in the Temple of Belus, at Babylon."

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LONDON:

WILLIAM PICKERING

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