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The sands and clays are usualy light colored, but sometimes they are browned or blackened by the various forms of vegetation which have been buried in them. On account of the continual cold in Siberia the year around, its strata remain perpetually frozen to an enormous depth, only a few feet of soil on the top thawing out for a few weeks in summer. While the sandy and clayey strata, when dug into, seems dry, they are in fact very moist, the moisture not being apparent because the ground is so hardily frozen. And through the strata of this vast territory, from Bering Strait to European Russia, the remains of many kinds of quadrupeds are so abundantly buried as to astonish everyone who becomes aquainted with the facts."
From the book- The Flood, by Alfred Rehwinkel, a few excerpts:
"Starting with the islands in the Arctic Ocean along the coast of Siberia, Howarth says that everyone of them contains in its strata abundant animal remains. There is a group of islands off the coast, in the Arctic Ocean, called New Siberia. Concerning one of these, the Island of Lachov, a small island about fifty square miles, Howarth said its soil is "almost composed of fossil bones." The same is true of another of these islands called Kotelni, which is over a hundred miles long and fifty miles wide. Howarth quotes a visitor to this island named Hedenstrom, who said that so plentiful were elephants buried beneath its surface that, as he walked along on the island for half a mile, he counted ten elephant tusks sticking out of the ground. This general condition existed throuout the whole island. Besides the fossils of elephant, skull and bones of rhinoceros, horse, bison, ox, sheep were observed scattered over and imbedded in the earth of the island. Concerning still another island in this group, Howarth quotes Hedenstrom to this effect: "In one island is a lake with a high bank, which splits open in the summer when the sun melts the ice and discloses heaps of tusks,mammoth bones, bones of rhinoceroses, and buffaloes. In other parts of the island bones and tusks are to be seen projecting from the ground."
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Brien
The sands and clays are usualy light colored, but sometimes they are browned or blackened by the various forms of vegetation which have been buried in them. On account of the continual cold in Siberia the year around, its strata remain perpetually frozen to an enormous depth, only a few feet of soil on the top thawing out for a few weeks in summer. While the sandy and clayey strata, when dug into, seems dry, they are in fact very moist, the moisture not being apparent because the ground is so hardily frozen. And through the strata of this vast territory, from Bering Strait to European Russia, the remains of many kinds of quadrupeds are so abundantly buried as to astonish everyone who becomes aquainted with the facts."
From the book- The Flood, by Alfred Rehwinkel, a few excerpts:
"Starting with the islands in the Arctic Ocean along the coast of Siberia, Howarth says that everyone of them contains in its strata abundant animal remains. There is a group of islands off the coast, in the Arctic Ocean, called New Siberia. Concerning one of these, the Island of Lachov, a small island about fifty square miles, Howarth said its soil is "almost composed of fossil bones." The same is true of another of these islands called Kotelni, which is over a hundred miles long and fifty miles wide. Howarth quotes a visitor to this island named Hedenstrom, who said that so plentiful were elephants buried beneath its surface that, as he walked along on the island for half a mile, he counted ten elephant tusks sticking out of the ground. This general condition existed throuout the whole island. Besides the fossils of elephant, skull and bones of rhinoceros, horse, bison, ox, sheep were observed scattered over and imbedded in the earth of the island. Concerning still another island in this group, Howarth quotes Hedenstrom to this effect: "In one island is a lake with a high bank, which splits open in the summer when the sun melts the ice and discloses heaps of tusks,mammoth bones, bones of rhinoceroses, and buffaloes. In other parts of the island bones and tusks are to be seen projecting from the ground."
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