Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . f glacierice, and by W. Buckland,with whom he afterwardsinvestigated the north of Britain. Here they found signs of iceaction similar to those in Switzerland: the , annouuicdby Buckland, though too startling to be at once accepted, graihiallyobtained credit, and further examination showed tiiat all themountainous districts of Ih-itain had l)een similarly occupiedby glaciers. I!ut as to the extent o
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . f glacierice, and by W. Buckland,with whom he afterwardsinvestigated the north of Britain. Here they found signs of iceaction similar to those in Switzerland: the , annouuicdby Buckland, though too startling to be at once accepted, graihiallyobtained credit, and further examination showed tiiat all themountainous districts of Ih-itain had l)een similarly occupiedby glaciers. I!ut as to the extent of the ice considerableditlercnce of opinion still prevails. By one school a very largepart of the English lowlands, the bed of the Irish Sea and mostof Ireland as well as Northern Europe to the south of Berlin,are asserted to have been enveloped in a gr(\at ice sheet, whichis even believed by some to have invaded the country fromPolar regions. Another school restricts the ice within narrowerlimits, and attributes most of the lowland deposits, with certainsliell-bearing gravels found even in the liill regions, to tlu^ actionof shore-ice and floating ice while the land was KltnATle Ar .SKAJUMI , 700 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. SlatyCleavage. Tbe Ocean Depths. The Antiquityof Man. But in 1S62 A. , who had ah-eady done excellentwork on the track of ice in Britain, aroused a controversy byclaiming a new effect for glaciers. In a paper read to theLondon Geological Society he attributed the basins of thegreater Alpine lakes to the erosive action of ice, and a fortiorithe lakes of the various mountainous regions of Britain. Thisproduced a controversy. His opponents maintained the effectof ice to be abrasive rather than erosive, and thus to be incom-petent, under the most favourable circumstances, to jJroducemore than a shallow tarn, and they attributed the larger lakesto unequal movements in the beds of valleys at a very lateperiod
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