. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. The Plesio-saurus is still more extraordinary ; for with the fins of a turtle, it had the head of a lizard, anda long neck, formed like the body of a serpent. Lastly, the remains of several distinctspecies of crocodiles have been discovered in similar strata. All these attest the existence,at some unknown period, of a stupendous race of aquatic monsters, which have long beenswept away fiom the existing animal creation. Among the radiated animals, vast shoals of transpar
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. The Plesio-saurus is still more extraordinary ; for with the fins of a turtle, it had the head of a lizard, anda long neck, formed like the body of a serpent. Lastly, the remains of several distinctspecies of crocodiles have been discovered in similar strata. All these attest the existence,at some unknown period, of a stupendous race of aquatic monsters, which have long beenswept away fiom the existing animal creation. Among the radiated animals, vast shoals of transparent Medusa wander about the coastduring summer, and are frequently by a sudden change of wind cast up on the beach ingreat numbers. But the deep recesses of the ocean frequently give to the nets of thefisherman animals still more singular. The Black Line Worm, or Sea Long Worm (Lin-naus longissimus Sow., Jig. 127.), whose mouth is hardly a quarter of an inch wide, is said,by tlie fishermen, to measure twelve fathoms in length: it is soft, and so fragile, that theentire animal seems not yet to have been procured. 128127. Black line Worm.
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