Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . ground to the highestpoint of the horn, nearly ten feet and a half. Theweight of the skull of one, without the lower jaw, wasfive pounds and a quarter; while the same skull withlower jaw and anthers was eighty-seven pounds. probably existed coeval with this enormous Germany, there were lound in the same drain severalUius and stone hatciiets, and a head of tliis extinct Ireland, a human body was found, under eleven feetof peat, in good |ireservation, and clad in garmentsmade, ap])arently, of the hair of this anima
Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . ground to the highestpoint of the horn, nearly ten feet and a half. Theweight of the skull of one, without the lower jaw, wasfive pounds and a quarter; while the same skull withlower jaw and anthers was eighty-seven pounds. probably existed coeval with this enormous Germany, there were lound in the same drain severalUius and stone hatciiets, and a head of tliis extinct Ireland, a human body was found, under eleven feetof peat, in good |ireservation, and clad in garmentsmade, ap])arently, of the hair of this animal. Thereexists a rib in l)nl)lin, which had evidently, during thelifetime of the aninjal, l)een pierced by some shaip in-strument, apparently a stone arrow, as there was such amark upon it as that would have made. LECTURES ON GEOLOGY. 2G1 Several species of oxen were conteniporrncous withthe Irish elk, some of them of gigantic size. One, Bosprimigenius (primitive ox), the skull of wliich is repie-senteJ by Fig. r,3, is said to have existed in Switzerland. Uoi i>riinipeniua. as recently as the sixteenth century. One gigantic oxwas nearly as large as an elephant. But more important than all these, in the more recentdrift and in caves, accompanying extinct animals, havebeen found the woiks and the remains of man. Considerable attention was turned to the bones fre-rpiently found on the floors of caves, by tlic publicationof a volume by Dr. Buckland on the Kirkdahi Cave,discovered at Kirkdale, in Yorkshire, in 1820. Tiiebottom of the cave, says the doctor, on first removingtlie mud, was found to be strewed all over, like a dog-kennel, from ore end to the other, with hundreds ofteeth and bone., or rather broken and spintered frag 262 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY. ments of bones, of tlie elephant, bear, hyena, rhinoceros,and hippopotamus. Those of the larger animals werefound even in the inmost and smaller recesses. Scarcelya bone has escaped fracture. On some of the bonesmarks may be trace
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