We Explore Dead Lodge Canyon 59 



English, if you please, "The fierce looking easilj 

 balanced carniverous dinosaur." The skull is 

 about three feet long, with all the teeth in place ; 

 they are from four to five inches in length, slight- 

 ly recurved, with flattened sides, double edged, 

 with serrated margins. Fierce indeed must he 

 have looked, when he slunk up on his prey, his 

 eyes flashing cruelty, with glistening teeth also, 

 and forked tongue. His entire body from the 

 front of the jaws, to end of the tail was twenty - 

 nine feet in length. His powerful hind limbs, on 

 which the entire body was balanced, were ten 

 and a half feet in length. He had three great, 

 claw-armed toes, and one not so large, raised 

 from the ground like the spur of a rooster. His 

 front limbs were mere vestigials, ouly twenty- 

 three inches long; and the digits were reduced 

 to two, with weak claw bones. We are unable to 

 imagine to what use they could have been put. 

 The abdominal walls were protected in front by 

 16 pairs of ventral ribs, that were united to the 

 regular ribs by rods of bone on each side; they 

 passed each other mid-way in front, in order to 

 allow the increase and decrease in the walls dur- 

 ing the act of breathing, sliding at their ends, 

 back and fortli with each breath. They were as 

 effectively protected as if sheathed in iron hoops. 

 The long bones were hollow, and the feet like 

 those of a running bird. In front of the pelvic 

 arch the pubic bones were provided with two 

 large feet, that, in position, were in a line with 



