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part had become nearly dry.[1]
Fig. 2.—Another piece of dried clay, from the same pond, showing a long trail at a; and other trails, h, k; a bird's footprints (c) treading in an old trail at b, b;; a new gallery being formed at e subsequently to the bird's impressions on the soft mud; f, old footprint of another bird under new gallery; g, orifice; d, bubble-marks; i, i, i, rain-prints. (Nat. size.)
In advance of these is a more faintly
- ↑ This minutely-spotted surface reminds one of that portion of the woodcut in plate 7, in vol. ii. of the 'Geologist,' which is said to be "pitted with worm-holes in the sheltered hollows."
