LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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10. Photograph of the living Quagga {Equus qitaqqa), 18 



11. Photograph of the living Zebra {Equus birchelli) . 19 



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



13. St^ller'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 



1 o V. Egg of the Great Auk, of the natural size . . 25 



IG. Reproduction of a picture of the Dodo, painted by- 

 Roland Savery from 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 ....... 20 



19. The ruins of the ancient Roman public buildings at 



Puzzuoli (Puteoli) near Naples ... 32 



20. One of the three columns of the " temple '* at 



Puzzuoli . . . . .33 



21. PuzzuoU or Puteoli in the time of the Roman 



Empire (third century) 35 



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



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



24. Imaginary 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 1900, raised 



150 feet above the sea-level by an imperceptible 

 movement of six inches a year . . .40 



