 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1874 - 572 pages
...Glacial Period took place about two hundred thousand years ago. At this time the earth was so placed with regard to the sun that a series of physical changes...induced, which eventually resulted in conferring upon the northern hemisphere a climate of more than Arctic severity. " All Northern America and Northern... | |
 | Science - 1876 - 1192 pages
...is this. "Upward of 200, 000 years ago the Earth, as we know from the calculations of atlronomer», was so placed in regard to the Sun that a series of...induced, which eventually resulted in conferring upon our atmosphere a most intensely severe climate. All Northern Europe and North America disappeared beneath... | |
 | JAMES GEIKIE - 1877 - 602 pages
...that chequered past, whose records we have just been perusing. Upwards of 200,000 years ago the earth, as we know from the calculations of astronomers, was...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate. All northern Europe and northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow, and the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1877 - 696 pages
...is this. "Upward of 200, 000 years ago the Earth, as we know from the calculations of a»tronomer», was so placed in regard to the Sun that a series of...induced, which eventually resulted in conferring upon our atmosphere a most intensely severe climate. All Northern Europe and North America disappeared beneath... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1877 - 720 pages
...this. " Upward of 200, 000 years ago the Earth, as we know from the calculation,! of a»tronomert, was so placed in regard to the Sun that a series of...induced, which eventually resulted in conferring upon our atmosphere a most intensely severe climate. All Northern Europe and North America disappeared beneath... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Botany - 1878 - 508 pages
...arctic, at another becomes tropical. Astronomers tell us that more than 200,000 years ago, the earth was so placed in regard to the sun, that a series...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate.* All the northern lands of Europe were then covered with a thick crust of ice and snow. The climate... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Botany - 1878 - 534 pages
...arctic, at another becomes tropical. Astronomers tell us that more than 200,000 years ago, the earth was so placed in regard to the sun, that a series...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate.* All the northern lands of Europe were then covered with a thick crust of ice and snow. The climate... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 600 pages
...checkered past, whose records we have just been perusing. Upward of 200,000 years ago the earth — as we know from the calculations of astronomers —...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate. All northern Europe and northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow, and the... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Bureau of Statistics - Chicago (Ill.) - 1911 - 234 pages
...approximately, by our present chronological scale. Geikie says: "Upward of 200,000 years ago, the earth, as we know from the calculations of astronomers, was...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate. All northern Europe and Northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow, and the... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1912 - 668 pages
...approximately, by our present chronological scale. Geikie says: "Upwards of 200,000 year-j ago the earth, as we know from the calculations of astronomers, was...upon our hemisphere a most intensely severe climate. All northern Europe and northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow, and the... | |
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Upward of 200,000 years ago the earth — as we know from the calculations of astronomers — was so placed in regard to the sun that a series of physical changes was induced which eventually resulted in conferring upon our hemisphere a most intensely... 
