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One day I found some polished boulders 

 perched like driftwood on the top of a polished 

 rock dome ; they were porphyry, while the dome 

 was flawless granite. They plainly had come 

 from somewhere else. How they managed to be 

 where they were was too much for me. Mount- 

 ain floods were terrible but not wild enough in 

 their fiercest rushes to do this. Upon a mount- 

 ainside across a gorge about two miles distant, 

 and a thousand feet above the perched boulders 

 on the dome, I found a porphyry outcrop; but 

 this situation only added to my confusion. I 

 did not then know of the glacial period, or the 

 actions of glaciers. It was a delightful revela- 

 tion when John Muir told me of these wonders. 



Much of the earth's surface, together with 

 most mountain-ranges, have gone through a 

 glacial period or periods. There is extensive and 

 varied evidence that the greater portion of the 

 earth has been carved and extensively changed 

 by the Ice King. Substantial works, blurred 

 and broken records, and impressive ruins in 

 wide array over the earth show long and active 

 possession by the Ice King, as eloquently as the 



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