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Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
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{p. 62}

atmosphere was necessary to lift this gigantic layer of ocean-water
out of its bed and into the clouds!

The ice, then, was not the cause of the cataclysm; it was simply one
of the secondary consequences.

We must look, then, behind the ice-age for some cause that would
prodigiously increase the _heat_ of our atmosphere, and, when we have
found _that_, we shall have discovered the cause of the
drift-deposits as well as of the ice.

The solution of the whole stupendous problem is, therefore, heat, not
cold.

{p. 63}

PART II.

The Comet.

CHAPTER I.

A COMET CAUSED THE DRIFT.

Now, good reader, we have reasoned together up to this point. To be
sure, I have done most of the talking, while you have indulged in
what the Rev. Sydney Smith called, speaking of Lord Macaulay,
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