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 DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS

At last have mortal eyes gazed upon two reptiles of the great primitive ocean! I saw the flaming red eyes of the Ichthyosaurus each as big, or bigger than a man's head. * * * The other was the mighty Plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical body, a short stumpy tail, and fins like a bank of oars in a Roman galley. Its neck, as flexible as that of a swan, rose, more than thirty feet above the waves, a tower of animated flesh.—Page 143. Vol. 2.