Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.

the inveteration or continuance of the morbiſick cauſ

Developed by such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Abraham Merrit, the lost world novel presents small, encapsulated worlds, inhabited by the living fossils of some prehistoric culture, often with dinosaurs or other extinct beasts thrown in for good measure.

He is cut up pretty bad.