BnAN'QQM TT© Portage ia Phaib 







Fig 2. 



covered with boulders which became stranded 

 from icebergs detached from the glacier lobe 

 and floating southward over the surface of the 

 lake. 



DID MAN SEE THE GLACIERS ? 



An important question is raised as to 

 whether human heing-i were living on this 

 continent during the glacial period. At the 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, in Toronto in 1889, 

 Prof. Gilbert stated that high up in 

 the beaches of Lake Ontario, whore the 

 formation evidently belonged to the glacial 

 period, remains of man in fire circles, burnt 

 stones and the like were discernible in the 

 gravels. In the records of the society for the 

 same year is an article by Miss Franc C. Bab- 

 bit, of Michigan, stating that she had found 



buried in a gravel deposit at Little Falls, in 

 Minnesota, a collection of quartz implements, 

 not water worn and seemingly laid on the sur- 

 face, at the time dry. These it is maintained 

 by Miss Babbit'must have been deposited at 

 the time of the eighth beach in 

 the formation of Lake Agassiz, and 

 of course would seem to indicate the 

 presence of man at that time. Dr. Winchell 

 and the other geologists of Minnesota seem 

 to agree in Miss Babbit's conclusion. The 

 authority is also quoted of a young Canadian 

 geolDgist, Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, well known to 

 us in this city, to the effect that in North- 

 western Manitoba at an elevation of 1,135 

 feet above the sea he has found sharp edged 

 fragments of quartzite, chipped by human 

 workmanship, inter bedded with the round 



