Sometimes this creature goeth about with a long stick ye which it putteth to its face and bloweth fire and smoke through ye same with a sudden and most damnable bruit and noise that doth fright its prey to death, and so seizeth it in its talons and walketh away to its habitat, consumed with a most fierce and devilish joy.' "Now was the description set forth by our ancestors wonderfully indorsed and confirmed by the fossils before us, as shall be seen.

The specimen marked 'Captain Kidd' was examined in detail.

Upon its head and part of its face was a sort of fur like that upon the tail of a horse.

With great labor its loose skin was removed, whereupon its body was discovered to be of a polished white texture, thoroughly petrified.

The straw it had eaten, so many ages gone by, was still in its body, undigested--and even in its legs.
"Surrounding these fossils were objects that would mean nothing to the ignorant, but to the eye of science they were a revelation.