LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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10. Photograph of the living Quagga {Eqiius gtiagga), 18 



11. Photograph of the Hving Zebra [Equus hirchelli) . 19 



12. Photograph of two Giraffes from life . . .21 



13. Steller's drawing of the Sea-cow discovered by him 



and called Rhytina stelleri . . . .22 



14. Photograph of a skull of Steller's Sea-cow . 22 



15. The Great Auk, or Gurc-fowl {Alca impennis). 



Photographed with its egg .... 23 



15a. Egg of the Great Auk, of the natvu-al size . . 25 



10. Reproduction of a picture of the Dodo, painted by 



Roland Savery frona life, in 1626 ... 26 



17. A nearly complete skeleton of the Dodo, put to- 



gether from bones collected by Mr. George Clark 



in a marshy pool in Mauritius ... 27 



18. The living Giant Tortoise of the Court House, 



Mauritius 29 



19. The ruins of the ancient Roman public buildings at 



Puzzuoli (Puteoli) near Xaples ... 32 



20. One of the three cohunns of the " temple " at 



Puzzuoli 33 



21. Puzzuoli or Puteoli in the time of the Roman 



Emi^ire (third century) ..... 35 



22. Puzzuoli in the ninth century .... 36 



23. Puzzuoli at the present day . . . .37 



24. Inaaginary view of Spanish sailors carving an 



inscription on rocks at sea-level in 1600 a.d., on 



the Chilian coast ...... 39 



25. The same rocks as they would appear in 1 900, raised 



150 feet above the sea-level by an imperceptible 

 movement of six inches a year .... 40 



