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sistants threw down. We soon found that most 

 of the skeleton was present, and it required a 

 large floor to lay all the bones bare. At least 

 enough of them so we could take them up with- 

 out injuring them. 



While working around the skeleton, we dug 

 up what appeared to be impressions of mud 

 cracks, but Charlie who came to visit us, conclud- 

 ed at once they were skin impressions. This 

 seemed too good to be true, as none were known 

 before from horned dinosaurs. We were soon, 

 however, forced to believe it, when a large chunk 

 of rock broke in two and revealed the regular 

 casts of polygonal scales, the upper and lower 

 sides. They were arranged in the most beautiful 

 mosaic patterns, some mere tubercles, as in the 

 trachodonts, especially under the limbs. Along 

 the back there were larger scales, often rounded 

 or six sided, from two, to two and a half inches 

 in diameter. This was new, and unexpected, as 

 the men of science who had made a special study 

 of the horned dinosaurs believed they had a thick 

 skin with heavy dermal scutes, or plates inserted 

 into it, as a protection against the rapacious car- 

 nivores. But here, as in the Trachodonts, we 

 were so fortunate as to prove what we had proved 

 so oft before, "The wisdom of man is foolishness 

 to God." How could it be otherwise. Yet I am 

 free to acknowledge there are no class of men so 

 positive in their conclusions. I once hear four 

 different men at a Scientific Academy deliver 



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