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Supplement to the Glacial Theory. At 



the Buffalo meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation Prof. W. C. Kerr, State Geologist of 

 North Carolina, read a paper accounting for 

 the presence and characteristics of the drift 

 or unstratified superficial deposits of North 

 Carolina, which cannot be attributed to 

 glacial action or the action of water, and 

 which has hitherto presented a somewhat 

 puzzling problem to geologists. He con- 

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 as he terms them, earth -glaciers, formed 

 from the detritus of the stratified rocks of 

 the foot-hills mixed with water the mass 

 throughout its whole depth, of from fifteen 



