THE DINOSAUR TAKEX FROM THE ROCK 53 



brought gunpowder with them, and as every collec- 

 tor is expected to know how to blast, the tunnel 

 was soon being opened up. 



As the work progressed a drawing was made by the 

 head man of the party that showed the location of 

 every rock before it was taken from the bluff. Then, 

 as each piece of rock was removed, strips of burlap 

 wet in plaster of Paris were wrapped around it, and 

 after the plaster had dried, the burlap made a safe 

 covering for the stone. As soon as a rock had been 

 thus protected it was numbered in the order in which 

 it had been found among the other rocks. This was 

 done so that when the men in the museum unpacked 

 these various rocks, they could put them together 

 according to the numbers, number two joining 

 number one, number three joining number two, and 

 in this way the rocks would be laid out in the museum 

 in the same position in which they had been dis- 

 covered. 



While working their way into the bluff the men did 

 not, of course, find the bones of the Dinosaur arranged 

 just as they had been in life. As some of them had 

 been torn from the skeleton by vicious creatures 



