The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world

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Identifier: americanauniver04beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Chelone, kē-lō'nē, in Grecian mythology, an nymph who, having failed to be present at the marriage of Zeus and Hera, and having ridiculed their nuptials, was plunged with her house by Hermes into the river on whose banks she dwelt, changed into a tortoise, and thus condemned forever to carry her house upon her back.
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Photograph by J. Horace McFarland Co. CHELONE (TURTLE-HEAD).
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