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THE ALLIGATORS[1]
None discover aught of beauty in them; yet they were once worshiped as gods.
They were not of this world, in truth, but of another — the Antediluvian world of monsters and dragons and vast swamps broader than continents — where there were frogs larger than oxen, and alligators longer than the serpent slain by the army of Regulus.
The Ichthyosaurus, the Pterodactyl,
- ↑ Item, September 13, 1880.
