84 NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION, 



Some of these prints indicate small animals, but others 

 denote lairds of what would now be an unusually large 

 size. One animal, having a foot fifteen inches in length 

 (one-half more than that of the ostrich), and a stride of 

 from four to six feet, has been appropriately entitled, 

 ornithichnites (jig aniens. 



