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have ever experienced. Charlie took possession 

 of Jack McGee and settled down to the heavy 

 work of excavating the carnivore, from the face 

 of the cliff. I show you a picture (Fig. 12) taken 

 by Charlie himself of the two men at work, after 

 they had nearly finished wrapping the two heavy 

 sections of the trunk; Jack is cutting burlap 

 strips, while Charlie is mending some bones that 

 tore out when they separated the two sections. 

 Then again (Fig. 13) with triplex block they are 

 hoisting a section into the wagon. The two men 

 put in six strenuous weeks, removing the great 

 mass of rock that lay above the bones, blasting 

 out tons of rock, and dumping it below on the 

 side of the gulch to make a road. Jack used 

 to say in regard to the skeleton "it is altogether 

 wonderful." To which sentiment I fully 

 agreed. You will get some idea of the labor re- 

 quired if you look at the picture with Charlie 

 standing in the quarry after the specimen had 

 been removed. (Fig. 14.) When they haul- 

 ed the sections out it was along a ridge so narrow 

 that if the horses had balked or a wheel had slip- 

 ped they would have been dashed to pieces in the 

 gorge below. So important seemed this speci- 

 men to me I wanted the advise of the principle 

 paleontologists in the Eastern United States, 

 before we mounted it. So with authority from 

 the Director of the Survey, Cbarlie and I visited 

 ^Pittsburgh first, where we were cordially receiv- 

 ed by Dr. Holland, the Director. Both Dr. Hoi- 



