THE 

 ICE AGE 11^ OAXADA. 



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HISTORICAL NOTICES. 



Canadii presents unsurpassed facilities for tlie study of 

 tlie pleistocene deposits. Extending across the American 

 Continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in the widest 

 part of that continent, and reaching frt)ni the latitude of 

 45" to the polar regions, possessing great plains covered 

 with drift material, and mountainous districts heavily 

 nuirked with the action of land ice, and having in many 

 places al)undancc of fossil remains in its more recent 

 deposits, it has the same relative facilities for the study 

 of this later geological ])eriod that it has for the earlier 

 Laurentian ; and it has l)eeu one of the ohjects of the 

 ambition of the writer for the last thirty years, to do a 

 little toward making it a typical region for the Tleisto- 

 cene, as Logan has for the Latii-entian. I shall endeavour, 

 therefore, to sketch the Tleistoeene as it appears in 

 Canada. 



In making this attempt, I have all along felt compelled 



