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which is quite clear, insomuch that the bottom of the well can be 
seen through 28 feet of it, seems to have a preservative effect 
which would have kept them in a good state. The fact of the 
animals having sunk into soft mud and never since having been dis- 
turbed. or rolled about by flowing water, would lead one to expect 
that very complete skeletons would be found by carefully excavating. 
e water of the cuddie is rather sweet-tasted and good for 
Il. 
The fact of so many bones being collected in this place would go 
to show that the country must have been, when diprotodons. 
searce, 
so that these extinct animals were tempted to their destruction 
8, were situated in country so nearly level that the water 
ot sufficient force to cut ehat any 
