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ing country, and that of Northeastern America. He observes, 
with regard to the other areas of ice, that they were not on s0 
grand a scale “as to make it necessary tu admit the existence of 
former extension e glaciers of the s, the Caucasus, the 
imalayas, the Thian-Schan Mountains, the nd other 
reg Th view shows wide research, and is presented as 
favoring the conclusion that there was less ice in tho 
glacial areas than has been supposed t existed ot 
colder than now, were general even over the higher latitudes 
(north of 40° to 50°) of the Northern hemisphere. 5 
ext, the limits of the two largest areas—those of Scandinavia 
and Northeastern America are considered, and with the same re- 
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record that have a different bearing, Professor Whitney announces 
as “most clearly” established, that “the Glacial epoch was a local 
phenomenon, during the occurrence of which much the larget 
part of the land-masses of the globe remained climatologically 
face of the sea a necessary condition of the Glacial epoch”) ; that 
there has been “a progressive diminution of the temperature on 
the earth’s surface during the geological ages, and from the very 
