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en's discovery of reptile bones at Saarbruck in Europe (1844), 

 and Dr. King's discovery of footprints in Westmoreland Co., 

 Pa. (1844); the original slab is still unpublished in the Logan 

 collection, Museum of the Canada Survey. More footprints were 

 found in 1844 near Tatamagonche, eastern Nova Scotia, in Up- 

 per Coal measures, with worm burrows, rain drops and sun- 

 cracks ; one kind made by clawed feet, the other flat-footed. 

 Then Dr. Harding, of Windsor, found the tracks here figured, 

 on a slab from Parrsboro', now in King's College Museum ; 

 Lower Carboniferous?; ripple marked; in which Mr. Jones 

 afterwards found larger Sauropus tracks. Dr. Brown, of Sydney, 

 then found a fine slab (now in McGill Coll. Mus. Montreal) 

 having tracks of a large animal, with a foot three inches wide, 

 short and broad, with five toes. See Sauropus sydnensis^ 

 (Dawson's Ac. Geol. p. 356, f. 189).— The head and various 



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