78 Till': ICV' A<.K IN CANADA. 



the 0(|iiiil()riiil cuiiciii liftwccii Xmili iiiid Smitli Aiucrioa, 

 till <i\' wliicli sii|>|»usiii(>iis arc siiltsiautiati'd liy known 

 ^t'tilo^ical t'acls, inure csiK'cially llic occunciicc of IMeislo- 

 C'uiie I'ttssils al liiyli IcNcls, anil df llu; sunn! siK'cics of 

 niodi'i'M slu'lls 1)11 ilic Atlantic and Tacitic shores. l-'oUow- 

 inc' the example ol' those L^eolo^^ists of the I'nited Slates 

 wh<t ai'i^ ill the haliit oi' ,u'i\iii.u n liK-'ilions icahty to their 

 jtaheoj^eoyiriiphieal \iews, hy attaehini;' names to I'xtiuet 

 lakes, etc., wo may name some of tlu! more proiniiiLMit 

 features of our map after eminent li\inv;' advoeates of 

 extnuiie ^jhieial \ iews, whose personal merit and ahility, I 

 am prepaii'd to admit, are in the iiiNcrsi^ projiorlioii to 

 the prohahility of their iheoi'i'tieal \ lews. Tlu! j^'reat 

 soulhern Itay, at the hottoiii of which lies the " tenuiiial 

 moraine," may hear the name of |)ana. 'I'he strait 

 leading to tiie north-east, where the St. Lawrence now 

 tlows, may he rpham strait. The j^reaL westi-rn oj»eiiin<j; 

 may well he called L'hamherlain sound, ami the northern 

 hay, tilled with ice in the region now occupied hy 

 lludsun's l)ay, may he the gulf uf Wright. The greater 

 islands will he respectively Cordilleran and J.aurenlide 

 lands, lit companictns of (Ireenland ; and the smaller 

 eastern island, iV})palacliia Infelix. 1'hus will lie com- 

 ])leted the rough general outline of one map of America 

 in the age of the houlder-clay. liespecting Dana hay 

 and Wright Itay on the maj), it is evident that the 

 heavy ice-fields home down by the arctic current and 

 north-west gales, and the Itergs derived from the moun- 

 tain glaciers, would choke them with continuous masses of 

 ice of enormous width, the pressure of which would pile 

 up heaps of broken ice full of stones and earth on their 

 shores, and would exert a mechanical force much greater 

 than that of ordinary glaciers, so that morainic accumula- 



