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marsh to the eastward, and she now 

 turned and led her troop to that. Each 

 day they came to the feeding-ground 

 along their first discovered trail, until it 

 was worn deeply. 



Time went by. A wet season made 

 the upland marsh a brimming lake. It 

 would have overflowed to the westward, 

 for this was its lower side, but the deep- 

 worn trail of the Dinosaurs offered an 

 outlet that enlarged with the yearly rains 

 faster than the slowly rising lands could 

 tilt the other way; and so it became a 

 stream. 



Ages went by. The great upheaval 

 went on. The Rocky Mountains arose. 

 The former trail was now a crooked 

 river flowing eastward, growing larger, 

 carrying into the shallow sea millions of 

 tons of clay, till that shallow sea became 



