 | James Geikie - Geology - 1874 - 618 pages
...of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of land-ice levelled 'up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our...mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and outwards... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1874 - 572 pages
...glaciers of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of landice levelled up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our...mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series ofmightyglaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and outwards... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - Evolution - 1876 - 388 pages
...Switzerland: "All Northern Europe and Northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow. This great sheet of land-ice leveled up the valleys of...Britain and stretched across our mountains and hills. Being one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downward and outward... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - Evolution - 1876 - 384 pages
..." All Northern Europe and Northern America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice and snow. This great sheet of land-ice leveled up the valleys of...Britain and stretched across our mountains and hills. Being one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever dowmvard and outward... | |
 | JAMES GEIKIE - 1877 - 602 pages
...of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of land-ice levelled up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our...mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and outwards... | |
 | William Mattieu Williams - Norway - 1877 - 496 pages
...of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of land ice levelled up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our...mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and outwards... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of land ice levelled up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our...mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and outwards... | |
 | Louis Pope Gratacap - Climatic changes - 1908 - 336 pages
...of such regions as Switzerland assumed gigantic proportions. This great sheet of land-ice levelled up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our mountains and hills, down to the low latitudes of England, being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the... | |
 | 694 pages
...is this. "Upward of 200, 000 years ago the Earth, as we know from the calculations of attronomert, was so placed in regard to the Sun that a series of...grew milder, until something like perpetual summer reisrnod in Britain. Then it was that the hippopotamus wallowed in our rivers, and the elephant crashed... | |
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This great sheet of land-ice levelled 'up the valleys of Britain, and stretched across our mountains and hills down to low latitudes in England. Being only one connected or confluent series of mighty glaciers, the ice crept ever downwards and... 