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Introduction
10 pages
List of Authors Cited
1 page
On Some Remarkable Animal Forms
3 pages
Extinction of Species
23 pages
Antiquity of Man
15 pages
The Deluge Not a Myth
12 pages
On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And
19 pages
The Dragon
28 pages
The Chinese Dragon
10 pages
The Japanese Dragon
3 pages
Conclusion of Dragon Chapters
1 page
The Sea-Serpent
39 pages
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The Dragon (FIG Draco OR FLYING LIZARD)
FIG. 33. Draco, OR FLYING LIZARD FROM SINGAPORE. (After N. B. Dennys.) THE dragon is defined in the Encyclopædia Britannica for…
Conclusion of Dragon Chapters
The numerous quotations given in the above pages, or in the Appendix, are merely a selection, and by no means profess to be so…
On Some Remarkable Animal Forms
THE reasoning upon the question whether dragons, winged snakes, sea-serpents, unicorns, and other so-called fabulous monsters…
The Japanese Dragon
THERE is but little additional information as to the dragon to be gained from Japan, the traditions relating to it in that…
The Deluge Not a Myth
If we assume that the antiquity of man is as great, or even approximately as great, as Sir Charles Lyell and his followers…
The Phenix of the East
THE CHINESE PHΕΝΙΧ.