110 On the Judith River, Montana 



CHAPTER VIII 



ON A TRIP TO THE JUDITH RIVBE^ MONTANA 



Under orders from the Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada, Charlie and I left 

 Brooks, Alberta, on an expedition to Montana, 

 for the purpose of studying the sequence of the 

 rocks there, and to compare them with those of 

 Canada. Mr. D. B. Dowling, a Geologist of the 

 Survey, joined us at Coutts to do the strati- 

 graphical work. I cannot help, in this connec- 

 tion remarking, he was in addition to his geo- 

 logical knowledge, the most genial companion I 

 have ever been associated with in camp, except- 

 ing, of course, that prince of good fellows, the 

 late Professor E. D. Cope of Philadelphia, with 

 whom I made the same trip in 1876. A complete 

 story of that expedition is recorded in "The Life 

 of a Fossil Hunter." At Coutts Mr. Dowling 

 and I went out to some rocks exposed south of 

 town which appear to be the true Eagle sand- 

 stone of Weed. A compact greyish and reddish 

 sandstone with strong lines of cross bedding. 

 These lines are also lines of cleavage. Above are 

 some seventy feet of the Belly Eiver Series, 

 clays, and fluted sandstones. On July 2nd we 

 stopped at New Park Hotel, at Great Falls, 

 Montana. Not far from the depot; while here we 



