Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 40
such it was — rose from a body of ele-phantine proportions, and a tail of the serpent-pattern balanced it behind. This creature wasa great sea-reptile. Like the snake-bird of Flor-ida, it probably often swam many feet below the surface ; and it could raise its head to the distantair for a breath,… … IDEAL VIEW OF GIGANTIC SEA-REPTILE, OF THE CHALK AGE. period all animal creatures seem to have at-tained gigantic proportions, and, like the greattortoise, to have been so large that their veryunwieldy size may have caused their death andfinal extinction.
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