Show QUEER 6 Ii SU QUIRl N I A N I I RU TIlE WIL LC'S It E Ea DO I j jI jt t I II I IJ I II J I I I I Thousands o of Years Old By AUSTIN H Jr CLARK nI Institution In Iii all thou the deeps deeps-c portions o ot of the ocean ocean but especially lly In those re- re regions ro gions lons furthest from from the land where the depth Is 13 mostly abut about r feet t and the bottom is II I red clay th h dredge brings brinES up man maul many or orthe these objects Can you tell teli what they are arc They are the ear oar bones of whales ear b bones bone nes arc are extremely dense and solid m much like liko Ivory and the they are tho the only portions portion of a that will persist iii tho the deep sea The two lower pictures show tho ho Inner and outer sides of an e ear carbone lr bone ot or the tha common a laro largo large whale from front 65 ta to 70 O 0 feet fe t tn Sn length Many ottlie of the ear car bones lying o ct the red med clay ho h o been there for tor a avery very Ions long thousands timi thousands ut o h yer YI'S ye r rand an and and 1 11 have havo avo become much d ducom- ducom posed donom-posed lom- lom Posed or deeply In inmany Inmany many mony case cases thickly coated the peroxides of ot mangan i s and ano andiron andIron Iron The rho picture at ot the tho top lop op n a ot of o manganese cut across thia proved that the was formed L by the tha deposition of ot nun man manganese nien- nien about the Iho ear bone bolno of a toothed whale on one ons of ot the smaller kinds of ot what s It was brought up from II a a d pt ot feet In Inthe inthe Inthe the mid |