The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
does it do to argue that the mammoth was adapted to cold
when it is impossible to use the argument in the case of sev-
eral of the other animals?
Like the mammoths, these other animals ranged to the far
north, to the extreme north of Siberia, to the shores of the
Arctic Ocean, and yet farther north to the Lyakhov and New
Siberian Islands, only a very short distance from the pole.
It has been claimed that all the remains on the islands may
have been washed there from the mouths of the Siberian
rivers by spring floods; I shall consider this suggestion a little
later.
So far as the present climate of Siberia itself is concerned,
Nordenskjold made the following observations of monthly
averages of daily Centigrade temperatures during the year
along the Lena River (334):
January 48.9 July 154
February 47.2 August 11.9
March 33.9 September 2.3
April 14 October 13.9
May 0.14 November 39.1
June 13.4 December 45.1
The average for the whole year was 16.7. Since zero in the
Centigrade scale is the freezing point of water, it will be
seen that only one or two months in the year are reasonably
^ee from frost. Even so, there must be frequent frosts in
'jr . notwithstanding occasional high midday temperatures.
No (3!u ai H was knwledge of these conditions that caused
the great fc^ jf modern geology, Sir Charles Lyell, to
remark that it ->
s t$ tha tofl^ J* be impossible for herds of
mammoths and t.the m^ 3 *
.v subsist, throughout the year,
even in the southern part: of Siberia. . . .
If this is the case with Siberia, what are we to think when
we contemplate the New Siberian Islands? There the remains
of mammoths and other animals are most numerous
of all. There Baron Toll found remains of a sabertooth cat,
and a fruit tree that had been ninety feet high when it was