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GEOLOGY. 



are temperate, or at least not arctic. The ice of the Mecklenburgian 

 (Early Wisconsin?) stage developed the stout moraines of North Ger- 

 many. At this lime the ice-sheet of Scandinavia was not continuous 



with that of Great Britain. The Lower Forestian epoch is repre- 

 sented by peat bogs and buried forests in northwestern Europe. The 

 land surface is thought to have been more extensive than now, and 

 to have enjoyed a milder climate. The next glacial epoch, the Lower 



