The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chapter XIII

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS (Continued).

The Beaver, and its Habitations-The Mole-The Frog-The Toad-The Rhinoceros- Crocodiles and Alligators-Fossil Crocodile-The Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus- The Marmot, or Mountain Rat, of Switzerland.

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