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the last of the Edmonton beds behind. The 

 Pierre and Pleistocene occupy all the country. 

 The flood plain widens to about three miles. We 

 tied up for the night at a willow thicket, and the 

 tireless chug, chug, of the motor ceased. We pre- 

 pared to spend the night there. After supper I 

 went into the Pierre hills, and found numberless 

 large concretions that contained huge am- 

 monites. But just as the rock was shattered by 

 the weather so also were the shells. I could not 

 find a good specimen. We got a number of beau- 

 tiful ones, however, over the Belly river beds, 

 where the Pierre again appears, showing that be- 

 fore, as well as after, the country was occupied 

 with the fresh water beds of the Cretaceous the 

 sea had covered the country for a long period of 

 time. We were early astir, and Charlie hauled us 

 in mid-stream. A strong east wind blew in our 

 faces, it was disagreeable, because we had to 

 lower our tents to the deck, as they acted as sails, 

 and the power of the wind on them was stronger 

 than the current and the five horse power motor 

 would have driven us up stream. The choppy 

 waves beat constantly against the front and sides 

 of our scow curling over the deck itself. The 

 wind howled in the few cottonwoods along the 

 shore and on the islands, that we passed. The 

 hills on either side were lower; at Bull Pond 

 Creek, scarcely seventy-five feet in height. About 

 nine o'clock we reached the fifth ferry below 

 Drumheller. The ferry man had stretched a 



