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than now prevails. Yet no great fields of drift 
can be found. “Patches are to be seen here and 
there. These small areas constitute the record. 
The great mountain masses of moving ice, of 
which New England, New York, Ontario, and 
the states of the middle west give convincing 
testimony, seem not to have developed here. 
Local glaciers there were, but the evidence of 
the expansion of a Continental Ice Sheet to 
enwrap this portion of the outlying island of 
Vancouver is slight. 
