But it seems to me that there is a hiatus somewhere.

Are there not mechanical difficulties ?" "In what way ?" "Well, our antique monster must have been mighty heavy, and the distances he had to travel were long and the ways difficult.

From where we are now sitting down to the level of the mud-holes is a distance of several hundred feet--I am leaving out of consideration altogether any lateral distance.

Is it possible that there was a way by which a monster could travel up and down, and yet no chance recorder have ever seen him?
Of course we have the legends; but is not some more exact evidence necessary in a scientific investigation ?" "My dear Adam, all you say is perfectly right, and, were we starting on such an investigation, we could not do better than follow your reasoning.
But, my dear boy, you must remember that all this took place thousands of years ago.

You must remember, too, that all records of the kind that would help us are lacking.