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such gigantic proportions, would certainly sink 

 out of sight, as some of them in the illustrations 

 are in the act of doing (See page 79, "The Life 

 of a Fossil Hunter.) I believe the idea of Prof. 

 Marsh that the huge body needed the support of 

 water to buoy it up, is untenable. If they ever 

 went into a body of water to bathe, there would 

 have been a gravely bottom, with no acquatic 

 plants growing in it. Brontosaurtis is another 

 genus of the same family, the Thunder Lizard, 

 of Professor Marsh, who imagined that his tread 

 on earth shook it, and produced a sound like the 

 roll of distant thunder. It has been the dream 

 of my life to take up some of these gigantic 

 Jurrassic Reptiles but as yet I have not had the 

 opportunity. Every thing in Carnegie Museum 

 of Fossil Vertebrates is dwarfed by the great 

 Dinosaur named after the Iron King. (Fig. 6.'> 



Another remarkable skeleton is Morophus, a 

 toed ungulate about twelve feet long, and eight 

 feet high. It has a powerful neck, a head re- 

 sembling a horse, while the cofSn bones are cleft 

 down the center. There is a beautiful three toed 

 horse skeleton two feet high, and many other 

 splendidly mounted skeletons of the extinct ani- 

 mals of the west. I was delighted to see my 

 specimen of the great turtle. Cope's Protostega 

 gigas, The First Great Roof, mounted here, as 

 well as the Glidastes and a great fish I sold to 

 Mr. Hatcher just before his death. 



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