IDEAL SCENE.—MONSTERS OF THE GREAT DEEP BEFORE THE DELUGE.

It is supposed that the animal was either sick, or exhausted from some cause, possibly a recent struggle with some other marine monster, and that on this account it had left its usual haunts on the rocks at the bottom of the sea, since otherwise it would have been more active than it was, or would have discharged the inky cloud, which the cuttle fish has always at its disposal for avoiding its enemies.

RED CORAL.


DREDGING.