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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

From: Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:59:20 -0300
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

A paragraph from "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson:
  They had been the coverings of those gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period, of which the modern tortoise is but a miniature representative. [1]

  [1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore the latter cannot be a representative of the former. (Trans.)
In the footnote Malleson seems to be correcting Verne. However, the animal he is criticizing (armadilloes) is missing in the original:
  Elles avaient appartenu à ces gigantesques glyptodons de la période pliocène dont la tortue moderne n'est plus qu'une petite réduction.
So the word "armadilloes" was added by Malleson or appeared in some old edition by Verne?

Best regards,

Christian Sánchez
chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
Rosario, Argentina
Received on Tue 05 Aug 2008 - 10:13:58 IDT

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