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

THE GREAT EXTINCTIONS 259
imbedded some six feet beneath the surface. For several days they
continued to carry the small pieces into an adjoining field with the
muck, and to pile the larger ones with pine roots and stumps to be
burned. But Mr. Hoyt discovered unmistakable evidences of the remains
of some huge animal. At once there was a change in the procedure,
in order to secure specimens and determine their character.
It was difficult to determine the precise position of the remains, as
they were much disturbed and partially removed before any special
notice was taken of them. From the best information I could get, I
conclude that the body lay with the head to the east, from four to six
feet beneath the surface, and in a partially natural position. Many
of the bones were, however, out of place. The lower jaw was about
five feet from the head and lay on the side crushed together so that
the rows of teeth were very near each other. The tusks extended
easterly in nearly a natural position, and, judging from the statements
of Mr. Hoyt and the workmen, they must have been from ten to
twelve feet in length. After digging into the gravel and clay about
ten inches I found traces of a rib, decayed but distinctly marked,
over five feet in length. Where the body must have lain were found
large quantities of vegetable matter (evidently
the contents of the
stomach) mostly decayed, in which were innumerable small twigs
varying from one half inch to two inches in length. The remains were
all in a very forward state of decay; and when I reached the ground
I found it possible to do little more than had already been done to
preserve them. . . . (203:14-15). [There
parts found.]
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Here an important point is the fact that parts of the re-
mains were found mixed with the sand and gravel, which
had been deposited by the ice sheet as it retreated. This fact
suggests that the carcass may have been dropped or washed
out of the icecap into a glacial pool, which later through a
process of countless freezings and thawings and accumulation
of sediments became a bog. Later Professor Love am-
plified the foregoing remarks in a very interesting manner,
in a paper read before the Chautauqua Society of History
and Natural Science, July 16, 1885:
The twigs found in such large quantities where the stomach would
naturally be were found, upon microscopical examination and comparison,
to be of the same kind (genera and species)
as the cone bear-
ing trees (pine and spruce) of the present day. Mingled with the twigs