Show RICH IN FOSSILS abe bad lands a to abe situ dent the bad lands said horatio garrett one of alie most earnest rock delvers of the party from princston colleye that recently visited the bad lands of north dakota and montana to collect fossils to a northwest magazine representative are a strange combination of desolation horror and incomprehensible freaks of the primeval world there are lufty peaks bare and bravn baked into faires of burning rock by the hot mallk ns of years the valleys between arc white lberts lc erts covered with bitter dusty and blinding alkali that has made all that country a desert worse than sahara ever was said to be the rivers run wide or turbid with this alkaline concretion in winter and are dry and dusty channels in the summer the peaks the valleys and every feature of the whole region in fact seems to be thrown down apon alie earth in natures angriest amod a conglomeration in which even the ideological strata d and entangled this riun waa once alie salt washed bottom of a sea and alie traces of the receding waves are visible on every hand the fossils fos sils which berc now our main pursuit arc animals few iha and those mostly of the altu tire found among thim i L 1 bones cf ri i ani nr i t ruf ta 1 l villi 1 i rc r n it bojc ani ifo aa arclie of an ac a c alie bais bi is if hie mastodons and tia iain mt is aal of a i t ed in cne of alio llio ancestor af il f u of alie s jurians of the and miocene periods were bly Ind looking upon the remnants of these monsters and gazing on the awful scenery of the country a bit af hades upturned to view one might ay is it any wonder that alie indians shunned the bad lands and said they were the haunts of ghosts and tha home of evil demons 1 |