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ing events of the times. Now, manifestly, at 

 whatever level we may here find elevated 

 beach marks, with buried remains at all cor- 

 responding with those with which we started, 

 there we shall find the figures to correct the 

 theory with which we set out. 



Within a few miles of the mouth of the 

 DesChutes river, the very evidence we need 

 turns up. More than two hundred and fifty 

 feet above the present level of the river, and 

 therefore one hundred and fifty feet higher 

 than the elevation with which we started in 

 theory, buried in the stratified sands, clays 

 and gravels that mark the wash of those 

 streams into and along that old lake beach, 

 are found the tusks, teeth and bones of the 

 land animals of that period, marking at once 

 the height at which these waters stood and 

 the life record of the times. A visit to this 

 locality in company with an eminent geol- 

 ogist, the late Professor LeConte, gives re- 

 markably fresh vividness to the recollection 

 of the facts and figures that define the posi- 

 tion of its fossils. 



