164 The Bison 



Here, then, are monuments of imperishable 

 granite, fashioned by a race of dumb creatures, 

 and telling to him who can read their sculpturing 

 a long story of life and power and multitude for- 

 ever gone. From earliest time man has set up 

 all over the earth his enduring memorials to hold 

 the wonder of later ages ; but of the races of 

 the beasts, which one has done this, save only the 

 bison ? 



