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plished. It would take a volume even to name the 

 titles of all the products of his industrious brain. 

 One of them alone, the great Volume III of the 

 " Tertiary Vertebrata," often called " Cope's Bible," 

 has over a thousand pages of text, beside many fine 

 plates. It was published by the Government, in 

 1884. 



Before starting back to outfit another expedition 

 to the Kansas Chalk, I secured the services of Mr. 

 Russell T. Hill, an able young man who was work- 

 ing in the Academy under the Jesup Fund; and 

 upon our arrival at Manhattan, I hired Mr. A. W. 

 Brouse as teamster and cook. 



About the last of March we started with a team 

 of ponies and a light spring wagon upon our long 

 and extremely tedious journey across the state of 

 Kansas, to our headquarters at Buffalo Park. At 

 Chapman Creek, a few miles from Junction City, 

 we were stopped by high water. A raging torrent 

 twenty feet deep filled the bed of the creek ; neither 

 man nor beast could have crossed it alive. We 

 were, therefore, horrified to see a farmer, sitting on 

 a seat on top of two sets of side-boards in a lumber 

 wagon, come driving down into this fearful flood. 

 I called to him to stop, and asked him what he was 

 going to do. 



" I must come over," he shouted. 



" Why," I answered, " the water is twenty feet 



