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olden time brought past and present into close touch. 

 What scenes has the desert looked upon since this Im- 

 perial Mammoth staggered dying into the quagmire 

 which proved its tomb ? The dust caused our eyes and 

 throat to smart, and we reluctantly turned our ponies' 

 heads on the back trail, much as we should have liked 

 to stay and search out the secrets of these fossils, — 



FOSSIL TOOTH OF IMPERIAL MAMMOTH IN THE ALKALI DESERT 



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