BOOK OF THE GREAT SEA-DRAGONS,
ICHTHYOSAURI AND PLESIOSAURI,
G E D O L IM T A N IN IM , O F MOSES.
EXTINCT MONSTERS OF THE ANCIENT EARTH.
ISattj) Cfjtrty p la te s ,
COPIED FROM SKELETONS IN THE AUTHOR'S COLLECTION OF FOSSIL ORGANIC REMAINS,
(DEPOSITED IN TH E B R IT ISH MUSEUM.)
BY
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 mked
shapes of one another, of which pictures are kept in the Temple of Belus, at Babylon.”
D’'?njn Dj’jn n 'nN D’nbN R u n— n’n D’hVr io r ’i
From the Archaic Gemesis, cap. r.
LONDON:
W I L L I A M P I C K E R I N G .
MDCCCXL.
