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approximately equidistant points across the glacier, the observations being 

 made from two stations on opposite sides of the stream. Two independent 

 series of readings were made, each covering a period of three or four days ; 

 and partly for the reason that they were designed to correct a manifest error, 

 the observations were made with exceptional care. The measurements show 

 that the daily motion ranges from a few inches near the sides to about 7 

 feet toward the center, the mean being 4 or 5 feet. 1 The reverend profes- 

 sor seeks to impugn this excellent work by specious arguments (page 47), 

 and even FALSIFIES Reid's record by speaking of " ten feet per day in 

 the most rapidly- moving portion observed," while Reid's highest figure is 

 7.2 feet. (H) 



Chapter IV is devoted to "Signs of past glaciation." These signs are 

 enumerated as (1) scratches upon the rocks; (2) extensive unstratified 

 deposits; (3) transported bowlders; and (4) extensive gravel terraces. 

 The chapter is elementary if not puerile, and is characterized by 

 EGREGIOUS AND MISLEADING EGOTISM. It purports to 

 summarize the work of a large number of geologists in different countries, 

 chiefly in the United States, yet but two American geologists are 

 mentioned, while the first personal pronoun appears in a score of places, 

 sometimes in deceptive connection. Thus he says ([) (page 62): "I have 

 traced this limit of southern bowlders for thousands of miles across the 

 continent, according to the delineation which may be seen in the map in 

 a later chapter ;" and again he extols " our map" and depreciates Profes- 

 sor Chamberlin's earlier mapping by comparison; (J) while in fact his map 



(Note H) Professor Reid himself says, in Johns Hopkins University 

 Circular, No. 84, "The observations on the flags showed a motion of 

 eight to ten feet a day." In a paper in the Literary Northwest, for 

 Feb. 1893, Mr. McGee wanders still farther from the facts, and, omitting 

 even the 7.2 feet of his article, represents Professor Wright as representing 

 that "Professor H. F. Reid's subsequent measurement of from four to five 

 feet per day is worthless." This statement is in every respect the opposite 

 of the truth. 



(Note I) This statement is strictly true. A thousand miles in East and 

 West represents very many more miles of terminal moraine, as Mr. McGee 

 ought to know, and could learn by looking at any map of it. The 

 statement a few lines further on is not fair — Wright says, " thousands of 

 miles across," not clear across. He has no doubt traveled that line for 

 thousands of miles and no doubt a greater distance than any other man. 



(Note J) This statement is entirely imaginative. 



i Nat. Geog. Mag., vol. iv, 1892, page 44. 



