NATURE'S HIEROGLYPH U '>'. 



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are those of an unknown tongue, the meaning of which is an enigma 

 unless one has the key. The earlier students attempted to decipher 

 the footprints by comparing them with animals then known, with the 



Restoration of the New Windsor Dinosaur. 

 The probable maker of the tracks on the Middletown slab. 



result that they thought they recognized the impressions of batrachians, 

 reptiles, birds and mammals; in fact every group of creatures which were 



The Middletown Slab covered with the Footprints of Carnivorous Dinosaurs. 



The tracks are in high relief. 



capable of making tracks. It will be seen at once that the only true 

 key to these nature's hierogl} r phics would be actual skeletal remains 

 associated with the footprints or, if found elsewhere, in beds of equiva- 

 lent age. 



