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Newfoundland. The whole of the facts were tending to the con- 

 clusion, that instead of ascribing the phenomena of the Glacial Age 

 to continental ice-sheets, we should have to be content with local 

 glaciers on the higher lands and cold ocean-currents pervading the 

 submerged lower levels. Evident]y the phenomena could not be 

 explained without giving attention to the evidence of continental 

 submergence, afforded by the clays containing marine remains and 

 the ancient shore-lines found at very high elevations. The action 

 of shore- and field-ice during periods of gradual subsidence and 

 elevation could alone account for the great beds of boulder-clay 

 holding marine shells and tests of modern foraminifera, and the 

 term ' unstratified till'" was not always appropriate, as where long- 

 continuous sections could be observed, successive beds were often 

 marked by colour-lines, by rows of stones or boulders, or by fossili- 

 ferous layers. 



Mr. Marr congratulated the Society on having heard this ex- 

 cellent paper. He was particularly interested to learn that deposits 

 whose marine origin was so ably advocated by the Author displayed 

 no signs of stratification. 



The Author replied, thanking the Fellows for the reception 

 accorded to his paper. 



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