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Scientific American, Vol. 41, No. 26 (1879) (1879)

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one was ‘‘ three hundred feet long ” is scarcely vals. No fin could be seen anywhere on the back. The A Singular Specimen, probable. \body looked round and much larger than a pork barrel. It Mr. E. L. Wood, of Eastland City, Texas, sends us a One seen in the neighborhood of Van Diemen’s Land is was… … passes an iron ring, now on exhibition in a drug store in that pearance of snakes wriggling upon the surface of the water. town. It appears to be a shank bone, the iron band being This creature, says Kent, was probably a large poulpe or so interlocked with it that to separate them one or the other…

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