Note 18 — A General Comparison of the Demonstration with the Facts of Geology.
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To those interested in a verification of this very wide distribution of glaciation, the following short list of authorities is recommended:
Asia.—The Great Ice Age (Giekie); Note on the Glaciation of parts of the Valleys of Jhelan and Scind Rivers, in the Himalaya Mountains of Kashmere, Lat. 34° N. (Capt. A. W. Sleff), F. G. S.; Jour. Geol. Soc., London, vol. xlvi, p. 66; Mem. Geol. Survey of India, vol. xxii, also vol. xiv; Record Geol. Survey of India, Nov., 1880; Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal, xxxvi, p. 113; Brit. Association Report, 1880; Text Book of Geology, A. Giekie, LL. D., etc., p. 911.
Europe.—The European Glacial Literature is too extensive to mention.
America.—The Ice Age in North America (Wright); U. S. Geological Reports; State Geological Reports of Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, Illinois, etc.; Virginia, Am. Jour. Sci., vol. vi, p. 371; California, Am. Jour. Sci., vol. iii, p. 325, vol. x, p. 26.
South America.—Geological Sketches, Agassiz, p. 154, et seq.; Geol. and Physical Geog. of Brazil (Prof. Ch. Fred. Hartt), pp. 22, 28-9, 469-70, 490, 558.
Africa.—Geol. of South Africa (Stow); Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., London, vols. xvii and xviii.
Australia and New Zealand.—Climate and Time (Croll), p. 295; Am. Jour. Sci., vol. 32, third series, p. 224; Proc. Linnæan Soc., N. S. W., May, 1886; Prestwich’s Geol., vol. ii, p. 467; Rep. Brit. Assn., 1881, p. 742.
“The shrunken or vanished ice of mountain ranges is indeed equally characteristic of the Himalaya, the Lebanon, the Alps, the Scandinavian chain, the great chains of North and South America, and of other minor ranges and clusters of mountains.”—Ramsay, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1862, p. 204.