. Animals of the past, an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. are only a tithe ofthose known to have existed; while of the greatanimals that strode along the shore, leavingtracks fifteen inches long and a yard apartpressed deeply into the hard sand, not a boneremains. The probability is that the stratacontaining their bones lie out to sea, whithertheir bodies were carried by tides and currents,and that we may never see more than the fewfragments that were scattered along the sea-side. That part of the Valley of the Connecticutwherein the footprints are found seems to havebee
. Animals of the past, an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. are only a tithe ofthose known to have existed; while of the greatanimals that strode along the shore, leavingtracks fifteen inches long and a yard apartpressed deeply into the hard sand, not a boneremains. The probability is that the stratacontaining their bones lie out to sea, whithertheir bodies were carried by tides and currents,and that we may never see more than the fewfragments that were scattered along the sea-side. That part of the Valley of the Connecticutwherein the footprints are found seems to havebeen a long, narrow estuary running south-ward from Turners Falls, Mass., where thetracks are most abundant and most topography was such that this estuarywas subject to sudden and great fluctuations ofthe water-level, large tracts of shore being nowleft dry to bake in the sun, and again coveredby turbid water which deposited on the bot-tom a layer of mud. Over and over again thishappened, forming layer upon layer of what isnow stone, sometimes the lapse of time be- .*m. \ - > ^ -N S- \ S^f \ \J
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