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Introduction
2 pages
Fossils, And How They Are Formed
1 pages
The Earliest Known Vertebrates
1 pages
Impressions Of The Past
2 pages
Rulers Of The Ancient Seas
4 pages
Birds Of Old
3 pages
Flying Reptiles
3 pages
The Dinosaurs
3 pages
Reading The Riddles Of The Rocks
1 pages
Feathered Giants
4 pages
The Ancestry Of The Horse
3 pages
The Mammoth
1 pages
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Highlights
The Earliest Known Vertebrates
"We are the ancients of the earth And in the morning of the times."
The Ancestry Of The Horse
"Said the little Eohippus I am going to be a horse And on my middle finger-nails To run my earthly course."
Reading The Riddles Of The Rocks
"And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read."
The Mammoth
"His legs were as thick as the bole of the beech, His tusks as the buttonwood white, While his lithe trunk wound like a sapling…
The Dinosaurs
"Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small."
The Mastodon
who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength?"