And again, the same writer says:

"The intercalated beds are remarkable for having yielded an imperfect
skull of the great extinct ox (_Bos primigenius_), and remains of the
Irish elk or deer, and the horse, together with layers of peaty
matter."[2]

Several of our foremost scientists see in the phenomena of the Drift
the evidences of a cataclysm of some sort.

Sir John Lubbock[3] gives the following representation of a section
of the Drift at Joinville, France, containing

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SECTION AT JOINVILLE.

[1. "The Great Ice Age," p. 149.

2. Ibid., p. 149.

3. "Prehistoric Times," p. 370.]

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an immense sandstone block, eight feet six inches in length, with a
width of two feet eight inches, and a thickness of three feet four
inches.

Discussing the subject, Mr. Lubbock says: