246 Resemblances in Arts widely separated. [March, 
sions, the most striking of which are shown in the wood-cut, 
suggesting tracks, 
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Tracks and markings on Triassic sandstone at Weehawken, N. J. 
Ripple marks and rain fosse on other slabs help vividly vs 
recall a shore upon which these ancient waters of the Triassic 
basin washed, laving the forms of amphibious reptiles or pouring 
over crawling Crustacea, while showers beat upon the imprinted 
sands ; and on shelving and shallow bars the ripples sculptured 
their counterparts in gentle furrows. 
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RESEMBLANCES IN ARTS WIDELY SEPARATED’ 
BY OTIS T. MASON. 
ROM the times of the earliest travelers down to the present 
y, we have narratives of the occurrence of the same inven- 
tions (implements), practices, modes of speech, institutions, theo- 
ries, and religious creeds and cults in regions wide apart. 
The older historians and ethnologists were wont to say that 
? Read before the Washington Philosophical Society, Jan. 30, 1886. — 
