The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-09

painted picture. said T.
 Ut is the same place, 2 the professor answered q found traces of the fel- 1ow's camp. Now look at this.'
 It was a nearer view of the same scene. though the photograph was ex- tremeIy defective | could distinctly see an isolated. tree crowned pinnacle of rock which was detached from the erag.
 , 1T have no doubt of it at all' said T.
 s.WeH, that is something gained, P said he We progress, do we aot2 Now. will you please look at the top Of chat rocky pinnacle? Do you observe something there P
 ~An enormous tree.'
 'eBut on the tree ?''i
 "A large bird, said T.
 He handed me a lens,
 'sYes,s I said, peering through it, "a large bird stands on the treaL It aps pears to have considerable beak. I should say it was pelican. 7
 T cannot congratulate you upon your eyesight." said the professor. ssIt is not pelican, nor, indeed. is it bird, It may interest you to know that I succeeded in shooting that par ticuIar specimen, It was the only ab- aolute proof of my experiences which I was able to bring away with me. 7
 "A monstrous batI', suggested.
 fsNothing Of the sort,v said the pro- lessor severely. Living. as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles Of zoology were so ut- tie known. Is 1t possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy that the wing Of bird is really the foreaFm. while the wing of bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes be- tween Now, in this case the bone is certainly not the forearm. and you can zee for yourself that this is single membrane hanging upon single bone and therefore that it cannot belong to a bat. But, if it is neither bird nor bat, what is it
 My snaan stock Of knowledge was exhausted.
 s'I really do not know" said
 He opened the standard work to which he had already referred me.
 @Here, said he pointing to the pie ture of an extraordinary dying mon ster, ..is an excellent reproduction of khe dimorpho or pterodactyl, a fly ing reptile of the jurassic period, On the next page Is diagram of the mechanism of its wing. Kindly com pare it with the specimen in your hand.''
 A wave of amazement passed over me as looked twas convinced. There could be no getting away from it. SThe cumulative proof was over whelming The sketch, the photo graphs, the narrative and now the ac-,
  plete I said sol said so warmly, for felt that the professor was an i'll used man. He leaned back in his chair with dropping eyelids and a tol- erant smile, baslxing in this sudden gleam of sunshine. He purred with satisfaction.
 And then, sir. what did you do nextg'
 Ut was the wet season, MT. Malone, and my stores were exhausted. ex- pIored some portion of this huge cliff, but was unable to find any way to scale it The pyramida1 rock upon which saw and shot the pterodactyI was more accessible. Being something of a cragsnap. I did manage to get halfway to the top of that. From that height Lad a better idea of the plateau cpon the top of the crags. It appeared J 4N to west could see any end to the wis., ta of green capped cliffs. Below it is a swampy, jungly region, full Of snakes. insects and fever. It is a natural pro- lection to this singular country,
 Ibid you see any other trace of life7''
 "No, sir, I did not. but during the week that we lay encamped at the base of the cliff we heard some very strange noises from above.''
 "But the creature that the American l drew-how do you account for that2''
 we can only suppose that he must have made his way to the summit and seen 1t there. We know, therefore, that there is way up. We know equally that it must be very difh. cult one otherwise the creatures would have come down and overrun the surrounding country Surely that l is clear-''
 "But how did they come to be there ?,
 .sI do not think that the problem is 8 very obscure one,H said the professor
 There can only be one explanation South America is, as you may have
 heard, a granite continent. At this
 single point in the Interior there hat ] been, in some far distant age, a greai
 sudden volcanic upheaval. These cliffs l I may remark, are basaltic and there l fore plutonic. An esrea as large per l haps as Sussex has been lifted up el