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become extinct."* A tine example from Close-y-garey, 

 a boggy depression by the north side of the railroad, just 

 half-way between St. John's and Poortown, recovered in 

 1897 with the co-operation of a Committee appointed by 

 the British Association, t may be seen in the Insular 

 Museum now temporarily located in Castle Rushen (see 

 fig. 3). 



These elk remains, where exact details of the sections 

 or layers shown in the excavation are known, have always 

 been obtained " from the lowermost portion of the alluvial 

 deposits, and from beds which contain the first indications 

 of organic life after the emergence of the land from under 

 the ice-sheet," and Lamplugh suggests (Memoir, p. 388) 

 that the elk was an early post-glacial inhabitant and may 

 have reached this island, and even Ireland, across ice-fields 

 when a remnant of the great glacier still occupied the 

 basin of the Irish Sea ; and may possibly never have been 

 a permanent resident but only a migratory visitor. " The 

 animal," he adds, " may have lingered on into the age of 

 forests, when the principal peat-bogs of the Island were 

 accumulated, but for this there is at present no positive 

 evidence." 



The depression of the land referred to above was 

 followed again by a gradual elevation which dimming 

 supposes to have continued to the present day, but 

 Lamplugh argues on the contrary that it has in its turn 

 been followed b}~ yet another slight depression. Traces of 

 the last upheaval are marked all round the Island by a 

 well-worn notch on the cliffs and by raised beaches at a 

 height of 10 or 12 feet above present high-water mark. 

 That these beaches, which are later than the forest period, 

 were already formed, or being formed, while the Island 



* See Boyd Dawkins' Early Man iu Britain, p. 247, and 257. 

 f British Assoc. Report for 1898 (Bristol) pp. 548-551. 



