BOOK OF THE GREAT SEA-DRAGONS, 
ICHTHYOSAURI AND PLESIOSAURI, 
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GEDOLIM TANINIM, OF MOSES 
EXTINCT MONSTERS OF THE ANCIENT EARTH 
WLitf) Cfrirlp plates. 
COPIED FROM SKELETONS IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION OF FOSSIL ORGANIC REMAINS, 
(DEPOSITED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.) 
THOMAS HAWKINS, ESQ. F. G. S. ETC. 
Berossus, the Chaldean, saith, “ A Time was when the Universe was darkness and water, wherein certain 
Animals of frightful and compound forms were generated. There were Serpents and other Creatures with the mixed 
shapes of one another, of which pictures are kept in the Temple of Belus, at Babylon.” 
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From the Archaic Genesis, cap. i. 
LONDON: 
WILLIAM PICKERING. 
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