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Show A vf.uy interesting work ii nuw' presented tu the world by Mr. James Gcikie, on ' Tiie Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity o! -Man." The Author exhibits the earth as it appeared about 200,000 years ago. Mr. Gcikie seems to have no dread oi Moeejj and orthodox Christianity before be-fore his eyes. The Ixjok shows that the British Islands and all Northern Europe were once enveloped in snow and ice, a fact which few scientific men dare now dispute. It will not be long before we are furnished with the history of this Kooky Mountain country, when the saline waves of this sea covered -valley dashed over Ensign Peak, and left upon the highest high-est mountains of the Wasatch reminiscences remin-iscences in the forms of shell and sea-washed sea-washed cobbe. |