Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 281
ed 53 pounds,while at the time of its death in 1896 it hadincreased to 368 pounds, so that the animal wasprobably from fifty to sixty years old. But fossils from northern India show that inages gone by tortoises grew even larger andstronger than this, and it has been imaginedthat legends of these… … THE ELEPHANT TORTOISE. Length, when full-grown, four feet. The king of all turtles, however, alive or dead,Archelon is his name, swam in the seas that oncerolled over the State of Kansas; and the headalone of this monster was larger than a big snap-ping-turtle,— that is to say, it was three feet…
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