202 WARREN CPHAM^ ESQ.^ ON CAUSES OP THE ICE AGE. 



true and divine .... a declaration of authorskip, 

 both of Creation and the Bible."* 



2 The science of geology has produced a vastly enlarged 

 understanding of the six days, with the work therein done, 

 wliicli ill tliis most ancient record represent the very long 

 eras of the earth's development, succeeded by God's crown- 

 ing Avork, man and woman, endowed with the lofty 

 capabilities of the human mind. 



3 Ushering in the Human or Psychozoic present era, at tlie 

 end of the geologic ages of the long past, and upon the 

 threshold of the period known to us by written history, was 

 the marvellous Glacial period or Ice age, with envelopment 

 of large land areas by continental glaciers or ice-sheets. 

 Far the greater part of the earth's surface, however, then as 

 now, had a kindly temperate climate. The succession of the 

 Creator's work in the evolution of plants and animals, and of 

 man, moukled intellectuall_y into a likeness with the Divine 

 Mind, was continued in other regions during this reign of 

 cold, and snow, and ice, in the high latitudes surrounding 

 both the north and south poles. 



4 When the ice-sheets occupied their greatest area, at the 

 culmination of the effects of the extraordinary climatic 

 conditions of the Glacial period, the southern border of 

 the ice crossed the northern United States from Nantucket, 

 Martha's Vineyard, Long Island, and northern New Jersey, 

 through Pennsylvania into south-western New York, thence 

 west-south-westerly to southern Illinois and St. Louis, thence 

 westward nearly to the junction of the Republican with the 

 Kansas river, thence northward through eastern Nebraska, 

 and north-north-west through South Dakota, bending from 

 this course about thirty miles west of Bismarck, thence 

 passing westerly through northern Montana, Idaho, and 

 Washington, reaching the Pacific ocean not far south of 



* Hugh Miller's suggestion was a series of separate representative 

 visions granted to a Seer upon the earth's surface, in obedience to the 

 Creator there came, in the first Mosaic vision, light, and the division 

 of day aiid night ; in the second vision, a world-wide ocean, and the 

 gathering of a dense cloud-bank above a stratum of open air ; in the 

 third vision, areas of land, clothed with vegetation ; m the fourth, the 

 a|jpearance of sun, moon and stars, when rifts w^ere first made in the 

 previously continuous envelope of clouds ; in the fifth, swimming and flying 

 animals ; and in the sixth and last vision, lowly and higher land animals. 



[In regHrd to the "suggestion" in the foregoing note, Mr. Upham 

 wi ites, Augubt 21st, 1897 : — " It seems to me desirable thus to state, 

 indirectly, my belief in the harmony of The Book with geology." — Ed.] 



