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which rise to upwards of 5000 feet above the sea, though situated 
in so cold a climate as to be now covered with snow during eight 
months in the year (and some peaks are never uncovered), show 
none of those signs insisted on by glacialists, of their having been 
at, any period the residence of permanent glaciers. With the total 
absence of such proofs, so it is a striking confirmation of the con- 
nexion between glaciers and the blocks which in Russia in Europe 
are supposed to have been floated from Scandinavia and Lapland, 
that the flanks of the Ural chain and the adjacent plains are entirely 
void of all such far-transported detritus*. 
* The authors announced that the geological map of Russia and the 
Ural, as taken from their larger documents, would be published in a short 
time, and that their work descriptive of all the phznomena alluded to in 
these notices would be prepared in the ensuing winter. 
