26/90 The blocks are then packed in boxes or crates with hay or any other available packing material. Boxes are loaded on wagons and hauled across country to the railroad. Boxes are finally loaded on cars and shipped through to New York City.] The bluffs appear to represent the region of an ancient shoreline, such conditions as we have depicted in the restoration of _Brontosaurus_ (fig. 22)--the sloping banks of a muddy estuary or of a lagoon, either bare tidal flats or covered with vegetation. Evidently the dinosaurs were buried at or near the spot where they perished. |