| Summary: | Camels, Rhinos Once Roamed Lake County Shores, Thinks Naturalist. Camels, Rhinos Once Roamed Lake County Shores, Thinks Naturalist BEND, April 11 (Special)—Camels and rhinos once ranged along the shores of great bodies of water that existed in the present semi- arid desert regions of Lake county, Walter J. Perry, naturalist who has made an extensive study of the isolated interior region of Oregon, told members of the Deschutes Geology club here last week. Perry is certain great rhinos and several types of camel browsed along the old lakes, because he found their bones buried in the ancient sediments, far above the present levels of the comparatively small lakes of the present. The bones were identified as of pliocene age by the University of California. Glacier Evidences Found The naturalist also told the local group that only last year workmen excavating for highway bridge piers at the Narrows, near Paisley, found almost an entire skeleton of a large camel, probably of pliocene age. Perry also found in the highlands of Lake county evidence of extensive glaciers. "Although the lake country was not covered by the continental ice sheet it is quite clear that all the mountains had their local glaciers," Perry said. Vast Lakes Once Common "Within a couple of miles of* Lakeview at Black cap on the Warner rim are beautiful series of terminal moraines, where a glacier dropped its load of stones in crescent-shaped lines, one behind the other, as it made its last retreat step by step. "During this time the lakes were again filled to their brims, higher than they had ever been before." Much of the south-central part of Oregon was once covered by vast lakes, Perry said.
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