| contributor, Littell's Living Age — Volume 169… (1886)
“ Ages ago, in what is called by geologists the Cretaceous Period, that part of the world was the bed of a great sea, in which the great turtle swain, together with other monsters of curious shape and appearance. Gradually the crust of the earth was raised, the water felt back or became enclosed, and left the inhabitants of the crustaceous sea high and dry, to be covered by the earth and preserved for us to study ages afterward. ”
