Identifier: gardenofedenfloo00keen (find matches)
Title: The garden of Eden and the flood
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Keener, John C. (John Christian), 1819-1906
Subjects: Eden Deluge Paleontology Religion and science
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Dallas, Tex., Publishing house of the M. E. church, South
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mensions of this hugecreature and history of its death is given inthe South Bend Herald, Washington Terri-tory—Mr. H. J. Hubler, editor: A Whale Whose Age is Computed at NearlyOne Thousand Years. The largest whale that ever entered this harborand one of the largest ever seen on this coast, washedashore recently at Tokelund. The fish came in on thehigh tide, and lies just a little below Charles Fishersbath-houses. It was alive and kicking, and did notfinally surrender its lease on existence until the fol-lowing day about noon. County attorney M. D. Eg-bert had taken along a tapeline and carefully meas-ured the monster. The line showed an extremelength of one hundred and seventy-four feet andeight inches, with a waist measure of one hun-dred and sixty-one feet and six inches. County sur-veyor L. C. Vickrey figured on the weight of theanimile, and pronounced this member of the balaa-noidea family to weigh forty-seven and a half tons, andthe blubber and whalebone to be worth, at current
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JAWS OF WHALE, SECTION ENTRANCE, (19) (This plate is in the Book of the Fair, published at Chicago,and is inserted here by special consent of the publishers. Thejaw of this whale was twenty-four feet long. Part of the inscrip-tion refers to another whale in the Washington exhibit.) The First Great Whales. 21 prices: oil, $9,795; bone, $1,000—making a net totalof $10,975. Attorney L. E. Ginn attempted to compute the ageof the subject under consideration, and concludedfrom the transverse lines on the baleen that his fishhad existed for nine hundred and eighty-six years,lacking but fourteen years of having lived the longestterm of whale life. The pectoral fins are twelve feetlong and seven feet broad. The mouth is twenty-fourfeet long, the blow holes fifteen inches long; and thehalf-hundred bathers in the water at the time it cameashore say the noise of spouting water was deafening,and the spray ejected ascended at least fifty feet in theair. The thrashing of the tail on the water in t

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