In cutting the hard intractable limestone from the involved Skeleton, how many muscles, nerves, nay the Sensorium in which life couched and subsisted, is destroyed, as effectually as the wisdom and wit of man forever lost in those lamented scrolls. True, there continue the traces, the stains of the once living flesh and blood, in the softened and discolored stone; sometimes even the fibres of the more cartilaginous tissues faintly present themselves, and the stomachic foeculae not infrequently remain, but the fashion and bodily shape is fled, leaving Moloch naked in all his deformity. Thomas Hawkings, Book of the Great Sea Dragons, 1840.
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