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From: <1001~at~atlanticbb.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:32:39 -0400
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I believe there were several early French versiions of this novel. Bill
Butcher will probably know if any of those include armadilloes. Or M may
have been trying to explain "glyptodons" but then the footnote does not make
sense.

The revision by Ursula Heise changes the footnote and eliminates the
"armadilloes" in the text. Her revised footnote is:

glyptodonts*

*Extinct animal that resembled an armadillo but was the size of a cow. The
pliocene epoch (5--1.8 million years ago) is the most recent part of the
Tertiary period (65 to 1.8 million years ago).

Thus M may have made a gloss in the text.

nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: Christian Sanchez
To: Jules Verne Forum
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:59 AM
Subject: A Journey to the Interior of the Earth


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 ` ces gigantesques glyptodons de la piriode pliochne
dont la tortue moderne n'est plus qu'une petite riduction.
So the word "armadilloes" was added by Malleson or appeared in some old
edition by Verne?

Best regards,

Christian Sanchez
chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
Rosario, Argentina
Received on Tue 05 Aug 2008 - 16:38:21 IDT

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