1 1 8 Life of Lower Lake Region. 



comprehensive plan, entered together into its 

 creation. The Almighty's work of creation, 

 as recorded among these Shoshone hills of 

 Miocene times, may be properly defined as a 

 providential bringing together of the agencies 

 of mountain streams, of uplifting forces, of 

 scattering seeds, of the nurture of plants and 

 animals, and of gathering into this favored 

 region the life that this same providence, 

 stretching over a preceding age, had prepared 

 for this Western Eden of the Miocene. 



RHINOCEROS. 



That in the sediment of a large lake with 

 a semi-tropical climate, the fossil remains of 

 the rhinoceros should be found abundant is 

 not surprising, but even this consideration 

 hardly prepares one for the frequency of their 

 occurrence. This relative abundance would 

 be explained by the fact that the life . and 

 death of the rhinoceros are both in lake bed 

 environment. The teeth are large and showy, 

 generally finely preserved and attractive as 

 fossils. 



