msrouicAi. NoTicKs. 2:) 



It is Inic tliiil iii;iiiy of tlit'sc writers still spcuU of an 

 it'i'-slii'i'L lis jMissilily I'Xlt'iiiliiiLr iicniss N'mtli Aiiit'iica ; 

 Imt tlu'ir own HtiilciiiciitM, as well as ihc imw uiiivci'sallv 

 mKU'rstood fact that tin- iiitcfior idatcaiix of f^n^Al coii- 

 liiu'iits caimoi iiiuli'i' any ciiciiiiistiiiiccs iccciM' snow 

 t'iioii«,^Ii to liri'Ctl ;,'ivaL ^iacit'fs. |»iiint to ciitiirly (lirrrrciit 

 c'oiicliisioiis. 



Lastly, in cNidcnct' of the ^'laihial I'ctuni to more 

 uiotU'ratt! opinions, 1 may (piotc tlio woids of a Nctcran 

 gliU'ialist, and a man of wide knowlcdj^c and powt'i' of 

 tlioMiilit, who liiis recent Iv idissed awav. Alexandef Win- 

 I'liell Llnis rel'ei's to Canadian conclnsions in a papei' on 

 " IJeeent Views aliout; (ilaciers": 



"Now, llie most- unexpei'ted residts of all tlic recent 

 lesoarclies appear lo he these: There has heen noeonti- 

 noiUal <dacier. Then' has heen no unifoim soulherh' 

 inovonieiit of <,dacier masses. There has lieen no per.sistent 

 declivity, as a sinr ijiui non down which j;iacier nio\ements 

 hiivc! taken place. The continuity of the supposed (!onti- 

 nental ^laeier was interru])ted in tiu! re^'ions of the dry 

 and treeless i)lains of the West; and in the interior and 

 Pacific helts of the continent, within tlu! Tnited States, 

 ancient ^i,daciati()n was restricted to the elevated slopes. 

 A non-iflaciated hidt, lyin^' a few miles east of the 

 foothills of the Rockies, extends all the way to the 

 unglaciated arctic region 



" AiKjther unexpected result of c(jntinent-wide ohserva- 

 tioii is the discovery of ^dacial strialions tending in all 

 directions from two general centres. One of these is a 

 north-eastern centre of glaciation, which Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson proposes to call the ' Laurentide ' centre; the 

 other is a north-western centre, which he calls ' Cordille- 

 ran.' The C'ordilleran glacier lay between the range of the 



