Geology for Schools and Students: Or, Former Worlds, Their Structure, Condition, & Inhabitants

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W. S. Orr & Company, 1854 - 136 pages
 

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Page 110 - That it was aquatic is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture ; its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water, presenting a striking contrast to the organization which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
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