The Ice Age in North America, And Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man
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Armstrong, surgeon and naturalist to the Investi- gator, notes the occurrence of granitic and other crystalline rocks not only on the south shore of Baring Land, but also on the hills at some distance from the shore. These, from what is now known of the region, must be supposed to have come from the continental land to the southward. Dr. Bessells, again, remarks on the abundance of bowlders on the shore of Smith Sound in latitude 81° 30', which are manifestly derived from known localities on th...e Greenland * De Ranee, in " Nature," vol. xi, p. 492. 216 THE ICE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA. coast much farther southward, and adds, "Drawing a con- clusion from such observations, it becomes evident that the main line of the drift, indicating the direction of its motion, runs from south to north."* It may further be mentioned that Dr. K. Bell, of the Cana- dian Geological Survey, has foun^ cTidence of a northward or northeastward movement of glacier-ice in the northern part of Hudson Bay, with distinct indications of eastward glaciation in Hudson Strait, f For the northern part of the great Mac- kenzie Valley we are as yet without any very definite infor- mation, but Sir J.
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