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Fence Broken by the Slipping of the Earth along a Fault Line . 514 



San Francisco Fire .......... 515 



Placer Mining in the Sierras 516 



Digging Peat in Ireland 517 



Coal Mining in Southern Illinois . 518 



Oil Wells 520 



Petrified Trees 522 



Skeleton of an Ancient American Elephant 523 



Gila Monsters 524 



Canada Thistle 525 



Yosemite Falls 527 



Cacti 528 



Rattlesnake Coiled Ready to Spring . 529 



A Herd of Reindeer ' . . . .529 



California Rabbit Drive 530 



Different Kinds of Seaweed 531 



A Small Shark 532 



Flying Fish : 534 



Seals . . . . . . 534 



Prickly Phlox 535 



Bird's Nest 536 



Double Beaver Dam and Beaver House 537 



Ostriches 538 



Opossum 538 



Kangaroo Feeding .......... 539 



The Dodo . . 540 



A Cottage in the Scotch Highlands ....... 541 



Cripple Creek 542 



A Herd of Cattle on the Great Plains 544 



A Herd of Bison 545 



A Part of the Plain of Waterloo, Belgium 546 



Crude Turpentine Still . . . . . . . . . . 547 



Pineapples 548 



Minot's Ledge Lighthouse 549 



San Francisco Harbor, California, U. S. A. 550-551 



