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.

Wonders of the Sea

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Wonders of the Sea

VERY sounding in depth of the ocean is full of beauty by the depths of the night and by day. ocean shows that Sea-weeds are quite different…

Wonders of the Sea: Oyster-Eater

The Oyster. "Seating himself, he gazes upon the calm expanse beyond, and swings his legs against the moss that spins its filmy tendrils in…

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