wilderness.

These, then, good reader, to recapitulate, are points that seem to be
established:

I. The Drift marked a world-convulsing catastrophe. It was a gigantic
and terrible event. It was something quite out of the ordinary course
of Nature's operations.

II. It was sudden and overwhelming.

[1. "Prehistoric Times," p. 372.

2. "The Great Ice Age," p. 466.]

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III. It fell upon land areas, much like our own in geographical
conformation; a forest-covered, inhabited land; a glorious land,
basking in perpetual summer, in the midst of a golden age.

Let us go a step further.

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CHAPTER VIII.

GREAT HEAT A PREREQUISITE.

Now, it will be observed that the principal theories assigned for the