. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. IV. 6Ofi-*5wm0(5. £> //. IV. Brown, M. Sc. T was in theearly dawnof the pres-ent or Ouar-ternary Agethat the region now included withinthe Granite State was uniformlycovered by one vast, continuous sheetof snow and ice, thousands of feetthick. Of the fact itself there can be noreason for doubt, but to conceive ofthe phenomenon, in its entirety,easily trauscends the reach of humanimagination. That ancient continental glaciermust have submerged an area em-bracing more than seventy degrees oflongtitude. From the Nort
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. IV. 6Ofi-*5wm0(5. £> //. IV. Brown, M. Sc. T was in theearly dawnof the pres-ent or Ouar-ternary Agethat the region now included withinthe Granite State was uniformlycovered by one vast, continuous sheetof snow and ice, thousands of feetthick. Of the fact itself there can be noreason for doubt, but to conceive ofthe phenomenon, in its entirety,easily trauscends the reach of humanimagination. That ancient continental glaciermust have submerged an area em-bracing more than seventy degrees oflongtitude. From the North poleextending southward, it envelopedall of New England, ail of Canada,nearly all of New York, the middleterritory of the United States as fardown as the Ohio and Missouri a small area in Wisconsin, andtraced its southern limit westwardly,close along the upper border of ournorthwest territory, to the Pacificocean. While there are a thousand con-vincing and highly interesting evi-dences of all this, the limits of the present article will permit neitherformal argument nor detailed dis-cussion. Having made
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