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Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

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The Deluge Not a Myth: Acculee

THESE MARKS O SHEW WHERE THE BOOTHIANS ERECT HUTS TO SLEEP IN ON THEIR JOURNAY TO ACCULEE MELVILLE PENINSULA LARGE RIVER ACCULEE FIG. 29. (From Sir John Ross' Second Voyage to the Arctic Regions.) REPULSE BAY * "The old Troglodytes, pile villagers, and bog people, prove to be quite a respectable society. They have heads so large that many a living person would be only too happy to possess such." -A. Mitchell, The Past in the Present, Edinburgh, 1880. correct notion of the relative bearings of localities, but also to impart the idea lucidly to others, I annex a wood-cut of a chart drawn by them, impromptu, at the request of Sir J. Ross, who, inferentially, vouches for its accuracy.

FIG. 29. (From Sir John Ross' Second Voyage to the Arctic Regions.)
FIG. 29. (From Sir John Ross' Second Voyage to the Arctic Regions.)
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