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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

CHAPTER XVII
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This, as the name implies, is a fish-lizard.

It has the head of a lizard, the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of an alligator, enormous eyes, whose membrane is strengthened by a bony frame, the vertebrae of fishes, sternum and shoulder-bones like those of the lizard, and the fins of a whale.
Bayle calls it the whale of the saurians.

Another may have been the Cheirotherium.

On account of the hand-shaped marks made by its paws, Owen thinks that it was akin to the frogs; but it was a formidable monster, with head and jaws of a crocodile.

Another may have been the Teleosaurus, which resembled our alligators.


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