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in the top of the plateau. " If I get one I shall 

 want you to come out with your kodak and take 

 my picture with him, so as to follow the fashion 

 of hunters who take prizes," I told the cook. 



Each man had in mind some one fossil animal 

 which he was eager to find and several other fos- 

 sils which he would have been just as much 

 pleased to discover. Among the animals in 

 which the men expressed interest while chatting 

 around the camp-fire were horses, tigers, beavers, 

 otters, rhinoceroses, titanotheres, wild dogs, wild 

 hogs, badgers, tapirs, squirrels, skunks, rabbits. 



These and other species had left their fossils 

 in this old Oregon plateau. 



Apparently where these animals had lived was 

 plains region and covered with more or less 

 open growths of trees and possibly bushes. 

 Fossil trees, "petrified forests," have been found. 

 These consisted of broken, fallen logs, a number 

 of them charred, and stumps still rooted where 

 they grew. Among the kinds of fossil trees are 

 redwood, walnut, sycamore, alder, cherry-birch, 

 willow, pine, poplar, sumac, and magnolia. 



A mild, warm climate appears to have pre- 

 vailed. The only kinds of stumps that we un- 

 covered, as I recall, were redwood like the 

 present California redwood willow, and a mag- 

 nolia somewhat like that now found in the 

 southern states. 



