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THE TERTIARY AGE, AND 
teentli century, they were described by old Profes* 
sor Scheuchzer as the bones of an infant destroyed 
Andrias. 
by the Deluge, and were actually preserved, not 
for their scientific value, but as precious relics of 
the Flood, and described in a separate pamphlet, 
entitled, “ Homo Diluvii Testis.” Among the 
Tertiary Reptiles the Turtles seem to have been 
a very prominent type, by their size as well as by 
their extensive distribution. Their remains have 
been found both in the far West and in the East. 
The fossil Turtles of Nebraska are well known to 
American naturalists ; but the Oriental one ex- 
ceeds them in size, and is, indeed, the most gi- 
gantic representative of the order known thus 
far. A man could stand under the arch of the 
shield of the old Himalayan Turtle preserved in 
the British Museum. 
