oe!) - NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING: 
- onee in, it was impossible for them to escape from the thick t 
cious mud, In the last drought, of 1877, Mr. Yeomans fenced 
zs und in, and sank a well to the depth of 28 feet in’ 
centre of it, and, as he went down, found the water rising upfi 
But the most remarkable thing was that from the surface 
full depth to which the well was sunk the earth was found 
full of fossil bones in a splendid state of preservation, many 
them being beautifully enamelled as if with some deposit from 
water. Mr. Yeomans told me that many of the bones were thi 
than a man’s leg, and the skeletons seemed to be complete j 
the animals had sunk into the treacherous ground. bag we 
led with some of the bones and taken home, and from time ®~ 
time they were given away as curiosities to different people d 
at the date of my visit, all had disappeared except about a 
fragments of jaws and teeth, which were retained by Mrs. Ye 
on account of their ornamental appearance ; and in this Ib 
that lady has done something for science, as the late Mr. B 
whom one of the teeth was sent, was of opinion that it bel 
& new species of crocodile. 
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_ At the time of my visit there had been some heavy ™ 
_ that a complete collection of the bones of all the 
__ that part of the Colony in past times could be made, 08 all 
animals must have into the trap, and the water 
