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Museum under 1 frown for over a year, had l"<-n 

 appointed on the Geological Survey of Caua.hi, 

 and would join my party. 



We found that we had made the eighty miles 

 from Drnmlieller in sixteen hours (Fig. 10) 

 travel. And though the trip had been delightful, 

 and exciting, I was glad to walk again on solid 

 ground. I had gotten used, however, to the 

 cheerful chug, chug of the little motor, saying 

 "all's well." It took good judgment on Charlie's 

 part to choose always the deep water route, on a 

 stream he had never navigated before, to know 

 which side of an island to take when the current 

 parted, and always choose the strongest. Mr. 

 Shaw the ferryman at Steveville, showed me a 

 ledge of rock at the water-level, about a hundred 

 yards above the ferry, that was literally packed 

 with plants, especially water lilly leaves, that 

 were as perfectly preserved as if impressions 

 were made of them in wax. I secured a lrge 

 collection for the Victoria Memorial Museum. 

 Charlie and I went down the river to spy out the 

 land. We found a large exposure of the strata 

 on the south side of the river. He was so fortu- 

 nate as to find the skeleton of a carnivore that 

 promised to be the most perfect one known to 

 science at that time, from the Cretaceous (Fig. 

 11). This has since been proved to be the truth. 

 In this specimen the ventral ribs and one front 

 limb appear in their normal position for the first 

 time in a carniverous dinosaur from the Crc- 



