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was asked to take the grubbing-hoe and strike several hard 

 blows just in the center of the bottom as a last effort to find 

 the objects of our search. Several blows were struck, and then 

 as the implement descended again, a sharp sound fell on our 

 ears, as if something hard had been struck. A ray of hope lit 

 up every countenance, and upon examination it was found that 

 we had come in contact with the enamel of a large tooth. 



Dr. Glaser and Col. Pitman now set out for Hondo, leaving 

 Air. Heusinger and myself, who had decided to continue the 

 excavations. We worked, with encouraging results, till even- 

 ing, and then returned to Hondo, arriving there at nine o'clock. 

 Next morning we made an early start for our field of opera- 

 tions, taking along, besides the driver, a colored workman, with 

 tools- The hole had been started too small, and we now enlarged 

 it to a diameter of about, five feet. The work in the fossil- 

 bearing stratum was slow and tedious on account of the danger 

 of injuring the remains — the hidden as well as the exposed ones. 

 At twelve o'clock the various fossils had been laid bare as fat- 

 as the dimensions of the hole would permit. The great jaws, 

 tusks, and other relics of the prehistoric monsters in their 

 resting place of thousands of years was a sight of intense inter- 

 est, bordering on the uncanny. We decided to preserve this 

 remarkable spectacle with the aid of the photographer's art, and 

 accordingly Mr. Heusinger took several snap-shots of the re- 

 mains while the excavation was fully illuminated by the midday 

 sun (Plate II). 



After eating our lunches, Mr. Heusinger and the colored men 

 resumed work, while I took a short stroll for the purpose of 

 studying the geology of the locality. Upon my return all the 

 fossils had been removed from the excavation, but alas! they 

 had fallen to pieces in the operation. They were packed in 

 boxes and placed in the vehicle- Having expressed our thanks 

 to Mr. Bracks for his generosity in permitting the society to 

 exhume and remove the fossils, and for his constant assistance 

 during these operations, we set out on our return trip to 

 Hondo. 



THE RETURN TRIP. 



Our driver, who fortunately knew the whole country like a 

 book, was asked to take a route by way of Mumme's ranch and 



