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Phyiosaur. there are found the remains of creatures called 

 Dicynodonts. which were primitive reptiles showing distinct 

 anatomical tendencies toward the mammals, and of large am- 

 phibians shaped like enormous flattened salamanders, called 

 Labyrinthodonts Also, there was a lungfish, a creature of which 

 there are still three living types found in Australia. Africa, and 

 South America, and which inhabit stagnant water, obtaining 

 their oxygen by gulping air into primitive lungs. Encased in balls 

 of dried mud. they can rest in a form of suspended animation 

 for years. 



The name "Colorado Plateau" is misleading. This meandering 

 leaf-shaped upland-lowland is shaped like a platter rather than 

 a plateau. The Spanish word platca. meaning the orchestral pit 

 of a theatre, would be much more appropriate, especially in con- 

 junction with the word Colorado, which means ruddy or red 

 and which is most fitting. If you drive up the middle of it you 

 may pass through some places thai are so fantastic you can 

 hardly believe them. The two most typical lie along a route— it 

 is not a road and is not at all to be recommended to average 

 motorists— that leads from a point halfway between Holbrook 



