This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of Hudson Bay, and thence north-westward. The rising of the land is believed to be caused by the expansive power of heat in the interior of the earth; and the falling, due to the shrinking that follows the cooling of its crust. The land was slowly lifted higher and higher, and its coast or edge gradually forced the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of Hudson Bay, and thence north-westward. The rising of the land is believed to be caused by the expansive power of heat in the interior of the earth; and the falling, due to the shrinking that follows the cooling of its crust. The land was slowly lifted higher and higher, and its coast or edge gradually forced the water southward until now, as you know, land above water extends as far south as the Gfulf of Mexico. That gulf is all that is left of what was once a wide, inland arm of the sea. How long, in years, it required to do this work no one can tell. Ohio was once covered by this sea, that part of it nearest to Lake Erie being first to rise above the water, and the last to appear being that bordering on the Ohio River, although neither the lake nor the river existed at that time. The Reserve, we may see, is, in its foundations, the oldest portion of Ohio. Since the land was formed, our state has been alternately above and below sea-level, having been depressed and elevated probably many times. It is now at an average of about a thousand feet above sea level. The layers of rock deep down below the surface show from their composition and structure that they were deposited there by a large body of salt water. THE ICE BANK. At some time during this lifting and falling of the land, the climate over the northern regions gradually grew cold, and the rain and snow, falling in great quantities, froze into solid ice which piled up at great height--so high and wide that by its own weight it slid over and extended southward, causing the climate to grow cold as it advanced. How long this ice age, as it is called, continued, we do not know. Some have reckoned its time to have been 2."-,000 years. The tracks of this bank of ice are plain to be seen, and geo...
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