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SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



istic of the marine fauna. One thing which is very re 

 markable is the fact that the existing pearly nautilus is 



closely related to the 

 most ancient f o r m s a 

 specimen creature of pri 

 meval times the key to 

 the inscriptions on the pre- 

 adamite rocks. The ortho- 

 ceratites were nautili with 

 straight shells. They were 

 the &quot;carnivora&quot; of the sea. 

 They often attained to for 

 midable dimensions. I 

 have found remains of in 

 dividuals on St. Joseph s 

 Island, in Lake Huron, 

 which were twelve feet in 

 length. A reliable gentle 

 man of Utica, New York, 

 informed me that he had 

 traced one in the &quot; Black 

 River Limestone&quot; to the 

 distance of thirty-two feet! 

 Imagine a hollow cone of 

 3 limestone, of the dimen- 

 &quot; sions of a &quot; saw-log,&quot; ani- 

 3 mated, with a &quot; Kraken 

 | octopod&quot; ensconced in the 

 g open end, staring with 

 | glassy, sinister eyes to the 

 I right and left, and numer- 

 ous slimy, muscular, insin- 

 uating arms feeling in ev 

 ery direction for their prey. 



