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myriads of mosquitos made life a buf den. We 

 were obliged to wear nets while traveling and to 

 keep a smoke going to protect ourselves and horses 

 from their murderous attack when we made 

 camp. We took the road between Rosebud and 

 Knee Hill Creek to Drumheller, a small town at 

 that time with a couple of stores. Ten days 

 after leaving Wyoming we arrived in the vaUey 

 of the Eed Deer River, encamped three-quarters 

 of a mile above Drumheller. On the 13th of 

 July we found our first dinosaurian bone of a 

 trachodon or duck-billed saurian. We soon be- 

 gan to find great numbers of loose bones piled 

 up as jetsam and fiotsam of the sea. They were 

 first carried out, by river or lagoon, and at time 

 of high tide were returned with dead seaweeds 

 of the ocean to clog the shore. The best locali- 

 ties we found were above the river near the prai- 

 rie level. They are usually preserved in iron- 

 stone concretions, or a bog iron covers the bones. 

 They lie in sandstone that has a yellow streak 

 through it. 



The valley of the Red Deer River at Drum- 

 heller is a great chasm cut by the river four hun- 

 dred feet deep into the heart of the prairie. 

 Across from plain to plain it is nearly two miles. 

 Tributary creeks and coulees have cut narrow 

 trenches farther back into the plain while in the 

 main valley, especially near the brink of the 

 prairie, are long ridges, table-lands, buttes and 

 knolls, pinnacles and towers down whose sides 



