1895.] In the Region of the new Fossil, Demonelix. 225 
ford, about fourteen miles south of Adele. From them we 
“ borrowed ” a little water for present use, and learned of a 
farm house about a mile away, where we might fill our kegs. 
Hither we went the next day and every day during our stay 
in the neighborhood and found water not undrinkable, though 
slightly alkaline. Our horses were compelled to put up with 
the sulphur water, but strange to say, they did not seem to ob- 
ject. Perhaps they were better acquainted with the vicissi- 
tudes of the Bad-lands than we, and were philosophically wil- 
ling to appreciate what they could get. 
Near the depot we made our camp, sleeping on the ground, 
which, after pulling up a few of the cacti that were very com- 
mon, did not make an unendurable bed, after a little experi- 
ence. In the morning we awoke to gaze at the play of the 
light on the wall of the Bad-lands to the west of us. They pre- 
sent a beautiful appearance, which cannot be appreciated until 
one gets into them. Then the apparent wall becomes broken 
into precipitous ravines and narrow cafions with walls rising 
at so steep an angle as to make climbing very difficult and 
often impossible. The bare white surface is worn by innu- 
merable gullies, and the inch or so of cracked, sun-baked, and 
friable clay rattles down the banks beneath one’s feet. Nota 
sign of vegetation can be seen save from time to time in the 
cafion beds a single plant, an Astragalus perhaps, washed down 
from above and blooming here in loneliness. On some of the 
“tables” above, among the grasses, may be found a species of 
(Enothera and several of Phlox, closely hugging the ground 
like mountain plants. Beneath the superficial friable layer 
the clay forms a soft rock that has become cracked and broken 
into irregular lumps. Now and then a thin seam of gypsum 
appears, jutting above the surface, while at some of the lower 
levels calcedony is very common, often affording fine speci- 
mens. At one place appeared an outcrop of sandstone which 
had been worn into fantastically rounded forms. Almost 
everywhere may be seen the remains of turtles, some on their 
backs, some right side up, some projecting from the walls of 
the ravines, others on the level spots, as heaps of fragments. 
Few of them are small, and some may be found that will ap- 
