Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

54 THE DRIFT.

large portions have been carried away. . . . They form but a small fraction of the drift-deposits.” *

In the accompanying cut we have one of these sand (s) and clay (¢) patches, embosomed in the “till,” ¢ and @°.

Srratirrmep Beps ry Tm, Lermsaen Warer, Peesressuire, ScoTranp.

And again, the same writer says :

“The intercalated beds are remarkable for haying yielded an imperfect skull of the great extinct ox (Bos primigentus), and remains of the Irish elk or deer, and _the horse, together with layers of peaty matter.” ¢

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

Sir John Lubbockf{ gives the following representation of a section of the Drift at Joinville, France, con-

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Section at JoryyIcre.

* “The Great Ice Age,” p. 149. + Ibid., p. 149. } “Prehistoric Times,” p. 370,