. Buffalo land : an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West .... Hunting -- West (U. S. ); Paleontology -- Kansas; West (U. S. ) -- Description and travel. BONES CLOTHED IN STONE. 329 lurch through the cauklron's ebbing tide, the lizard threw himself upon its edge, and died. Of the countless millions of saurians then existing, capricious Nature had seized upon this one, to trans- mute it into an imperishable monument of that extinct race. ,In those ages of roaring waters and hissing tires, she had clothed the bones in st
. Buffalo land : an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West .... Hunting -- West (U. S. ); Paleontology -- Kansas; West (U. S. ) -- Description and travel. BONES CLOTHED IN STONE. 329 lurch through the cauklron's ebbing tide, the lizard threw himself upon its edge, and died. Of the countless millions of saurians then existing, capricious Nature had seized upon this one, to trans- mute it into an imperishable monument of that extinct race. ,In those ages of roaring waters and hissing tires, she had clothed the bones in stone, that they might withstand the gnawing tooth of time, and thus handed them down to the wondering eyes of the Nineteenth Century. Many of the pieces, it should be said, were cracked and scarred, evidently by the action of fierce heat. Constantly the earth is giving up these marvelous creations of the past, in comparison with which the animals of the present are tame enough. While we doubt a modern sea-serpent as impossible, we dig up fossilized marine monsters, which could easily have swallowed the biggest snake that credible sea-captain ever ran foul Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Webb, W. E. (William Edward). Philadelphia : Geo. Maclean
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