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prey. While our Styrocosaurus lumbers off into 

 dense foliage of the low lying plain. 



"The Dead Lodge Canyon" below "Happy 

 Jack Ferry," some thirty miles north of Brooks, 

 Alberta, and but six miles from the new line 

 from Swift Current to Bassano, a short cut of 

 the Central Pacific Railway, is one of the most 

 remarkable gorges on the continent. Not only be- 

 cause it is the old burial ground of many forms 

 of the dinosaurs that have passed out of exist- 

 ence, leaving no descendents, but on account of 

 its scenic beauty. The silvery grey sandstones 

 with their darker bands of clay, is interstrati- 

 fied with a chocolate colored bed near the top, 

 rich in lignitic shales of an almost black color. 

 The black streak can be traced for miles, and in 

 some places develops into a bed of soft coal, that 

 is mined by the farmers. The canyon is but lit- 

 tle over a mile wide, and about five hundred feet 

 deep, the upper reaches being composed of dark 

 marine shales, called the Pierre here, but the 

 same beds in the Judith Eiver country of Mon- 

 tana are called Bear Paw shales. 



