The Old Weevils 
reconstructing that awful implement of 
destruction ! 
The monster thus equipped as a prince of 
death belonged to the family of the Squali. 
Paleontology calls him Carcharodon mega- 
lodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of 
the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, 
in so far as a dwarf can give an idea of a 
giant. 
Other Squali, all ferocious gluttons, 
abound within the same stone. It contains 
Oxyrhine (O. xyphodon, AGAss.), whose 
jaws are furnished with curved and toothed 
Malay creeses; Lamie (L. denticulata, 
Acass.), whose mouths bristle with sharp, 
flexuous daggers, flat on one side, convex on 
the other; and Notidani (N. primigenius, 
AGass.), whose sunken teeth are crowned 
with radiating indentations. 
This dental arsenal, bearing eloquent wit- 
ness to bygone massacres, can hold its own 
with the Nimes Crocodile, the Marseilles 
Diana or the Vaison Horse. With its pan- 
oply of carnage, it tells me how extermina- 
tion came at all times to prune the excess 
of life; it says: 
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