Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 370
izabeth Corsa (age 9). These pieces of stone are the circular platesthat made up the bending column of an ancientocean animal that grew in the form of a lily.In those very remote days, whose distance fromour time is measured by millions and millions ofyears, the vast interior seas supported, in… … THE STONE-LIKE PIECES THAT WERE PARTS OFLILY-LIKE ANIMALS. oceans. These were not indeed lilies at all, butmight be described as a peculiarly modified star-fish on a stem. They belong to the great class ofVol. XXXIX.—35. the Echinoidea, or sea-urchins, and their remainscontributed, in the past, to…
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