Show STRANGE HOCKS POCKS A la that around I 1 alainie la in the bou bouthern therit par part of ing ng ibo the rock formations to be found here are nut not only of tho the moat most sing singular ulal shafts but their very singularity wit the etory story that this part of at tho the knitel hiatus mates has had a it most remarkable this history extend extends all the way say from the early ages when hen lorol ng was aas cohered by a great tea sea and before there was aas any animal life in north Atu america erlea up through thi epoch the tea sea gae place I 1 swamps where here the giant alp tiles of the early world then the hug 1114 li bh eating din dimaure aure and saber toothed tigers later hen thi th land begun beran to rise out of the ten men on sw s mp and finally hen 11 the great creot cob u titi uplift erected mountains ol 01 granite to a height of 12 feet and over and when the white hite man began to ilay lay his important pirt first trai trail ring and i respecting and later rob bing and murdering and when pur sued retreating into the maze of rocks and gorgod whence ho he could defy law lau and order tho stone composing the monkey face the top of at thi this rock homing an apo like profile prof llo and the tho If hornets nest st park could perhaps tell th tho me mot ost interesting etory story this Is grew stratum was deposited following fol loing tin carboniferous age hen bell the atmos phere was eo so poisonous that tho the mac mal of today could not have breathed it and live I 1 thu the vegetation 0 at this peri perl od ad nas as tho the rankest and most luxuriant which has ever grown on our globe and at thia this time southern omina omI nV was covered with a tropical kallir sal lir jungle in aich lived awful monsters half halt animal and halt half reptile and oth ere ers halt bird and half reptile hibb which alone could thrive in the fetid atmos ahert the fact that these sandstones eard sard atones stones once the floor of an early sea and later of a rast fast swamp now stands islands thou sands of feet above tea level in a coun try which la Is so 10 arid as tu to be a part of the great american desert Is itself a 8 thing to be v hindered at at another period of at wyoming his tory there were forced up under tremendous pressure through these huge cap cappinus pings of the softer bedim sedimentary centary rocita vast flows flos of molten rocks from the anti inti alor of the earth and these are represent d in the great granite slabs and boulders which are found on tho the top of tho the I 1 adamie mountains steamboat rock could tell still an other story this Is a portion at 0 a great bed of rock sandstone more than 1100 feet in thickness which was uns once a red clay mixed with sand deposited by the tides of an ocean which existed perhaps 40 00 years ago like tho the other rock strata it has been bod bad lly ily elevated from 6 to feet above its original position which wai man below present sea leel let el and unit has witnessed the entire evolution of t tho animal life of the world from the eart eartless lest lowest form to the human animal of today |