1 64 The Rocks of the John Day Valley. 



was kept on for a while, when it was carefully 

 washed off, and a more permanent preparation 

 applied. These specimens now make a very 

 passable appearance. Mute historians are 

 they of the far distant past, uniting with hun- 

 dreds of others to tell strange stories of the 

 wonderful wealth of forest, field and lake shore 

 of that period. A tapir-like animal to which 

 the name of Lophiodon has been given lived 

 here too. His remains indicate an animal of 

 the size of the living tapir. Not far from the 

 last were found some bones of a fossil peccary 

 of large size. Another of the denizens of these 

 ancient lake shores bore some resemblance to 

 the horse. The remains of this animal, the 

 Anchitherium, were first discovered in the 

 Tertiary rocks of France a few years ago; 

 more recently they were found in the "Bad 

 Lands" of Nebraska, and later in the John 

 Day valley. But the richest chapters in the 

 history of the horse in Oregon are not from 

 those rocks of the lower valley, for another 

 and a later record in the upper part of the 

 valley contains these. 



