Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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Battle Between Antediluvian Monsters

shape and appearance as this strange creature. It was a struct the animal, and clothe it with flesh, marvel of ugliness. in our imagination, we find it an exact rep- It is difficult to believe that such strange resentative of the description here given. enormous monsters lived in the ancient Very strange creatures lived in those old days, the history of which is exceed-ence now, although we have their des. ingly interesting. They made the ocean cendants with us-monsters of the Tropics a world of wonders; they made the land and of the Northern Seas, most wonderful a vast menagerie. They are not in exist- in their forms and habits.

BATTLE BETWEEN ANTEDILUVIAN MONSTERS.
BATTLE BETWEEN ANTEDILUVIAN MONSTERS.
The Teleosaurus has an anatom- to increase the terrific appearance of its
The Teleosaurus has an anatom- to increase the terrific appearance of its
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