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“To give an accurate description of their shape is a thing impossible. Some  of them appear with horns that they bend to every shape; some seem to have but one leg and a tail, others seem to have three; some have bodies somewhat of the shape of a tadpole; others bear a distant resemblance to the porpoise; others exhibit the shape of a catfish with the head of a grass-hopper; others resemble nothing under the sun, but are wholly sui generis.” 

Magnified #PageFrights from The Book of Wonders (Boston, circa 1872).

The Book of wonders. : A strange, mysterious, and most wonderful publication. [Boston] : Published by F. Gleason & Co., 738 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., [not before 1872] 80 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm.