Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
-toration of it was made. The shell was that of a land-tortoise (calledby naturalists Colossochelys Atlas). Hundreds ofthousands of years ago the monster had lived anddied : — and the dust, sand, and vegetation hadgradually covered it up and preserved it as a monu-ment of the animal wonders of that… … GREAT TURTLE OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS their ancestors, that had in course of time beencovered by the earth. Others thought it one ofthe dwelling-places of a strange people who livedunder the earth ; but to the English naturaliststhere was a more simple explanation, for the curi- by a party which…
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