The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

CHAPTER XI.

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THE REPTILES OF THE OCEAN.

The Saurians of the Past Seas.--The Anatomical Structure of the Turtles.--Their Size.--Their Visits to the Shores.--The Dangers that await their Young.--Turtles on the Brazilian Coast.--Prince Maximilian of Neuwied and the Turtle.--Conflicts of the Turtles with Wild Dogs and Tigers on the Coast of Java.--Turtle-catching on Ascension Island.--Tortoise-shell.--The Amblyrhynchus cristatus.--Marine Snakes.--The Great Sea-Snake 172