Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 316
d tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped.It is furnished with four paddles, and is supposed to have inhabi-ted the shallow waters; darting by means of its long neck, sud-denly at the fish which came near it. The largest complete spe-cimen of the plesiosarus yet discoveredis about… … ed to a length or thirty or forty feet, and like the whale possesseda smooth and naked skin. The eyes were enormously large andprovided with bony plates, or divisions arranged around the pupil.There are instances where the diameter of the orbit is eighteen 314 THE WORLD. inches across. The jaws are…
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