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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 105

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e, of sharks is the man-eater, orgreat blue shark (Carckarodon carcha?ias). Itroams through all temperate and tropical seas,and is everywhere dreaded. Its maximumlength is forty feet, and its teeth are threeinches long. While there are few authenticrecords of sharks attacking human beings,there… … LB><i<tfOT0_ A MAN-E(It is ATER SHARK IN THE WAKE OF A VESSEL. about forty feet long when full-grown.) from the finding of a whole hundred-poundsea-lion in the stomach of a thirty-foot sharkon the California coast. A certain man-eater,thirty-six and a half feet long, had jaws twentyinches…

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