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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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eating it. Like most of the saurians,stegosaurus was at least partly aquatic.He was a strict vegetarian, and in all prob-ability spent most of his life sitting uprightupon his massive hind legs and powerfultail in comparatively shallow lakes, gather-ing in sheaves of soft, succulent vegetationgrowing out of the water about him in hisfreely moving arms, and stuffing them intohis jaws as rapidly as might be. Of course, the great number of speciesof herbivorous dinosaurs that then existedmust necessarily be accompanied by thoseof a carnivorous nature to prey upon them.Some of these were from twenty-five tothirty feet long, and as much more activeand muscular in proportion to their sizethan their plant-eating contemporaries asanimals of prey nowadays are more livelyand vigorous than the peaceful herds andflocks upon which they feed. Radically departing from the fish thesnake-bird and the kangaroo style of ani-mal architecture, Creative power now firstfashions a beast which -nay with some
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