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Show AMERICA'S FATE. The Popular Science Monthly for April, received from Dwyer, contains among its interesting table ul contents con-tents a paper of interest by Mr. C. C. Mcrriman on "The I'ular Glaciers," in which the author claims tiie existence at the antarctic n-:ons of a tract of it;e two and u half miles thick and covering 8,000,000 square miles, and anticipating ;m entire reversal of popular conditions in the course Of 10,000 yea j, "as certainly as terrestrial revolutions continue." Sajs Mr. Mcrriatuan : Tiie southern waters nui-t be draineJ oil' t'i mike the oc-atisi of un oppo-ite hemisphere. New lands, enriched with tlm sediment of a hundre 1 centime.-, will rise up to extend the borders of toe old south con linen is, ntid i-lnndsjohuiifj t i-fi'i'.her i-fi'i'.her Rill expand into mainland:-. At .no same time tiie northern continents mii'l bu in great part submeiged, and tln-ir sumniita and ra g-'s become the b eak islands and the bold headland; of a lemp.'s uous ocetn. CimUal Asia, with its bri-ad Ub!e lands, m still rciam te name of a continent: tm-. beyond a tew outlying islands, there wid he no Eun.pe, and but liulo of Noilh America k-f.. The Atlantic waters will i land 500 feet over Ltko Superior, and will wa-h the bo-oof the Rocky .Mountains in a 1 their length. A new gulf stream m-y again, as it must often have done before, llow up the valley of the Mi-siss.ppi. returning return-ing the delta to iho prairies, and remaking remak-ing Ltiu beds of the gardi-T of the warld. |