Show MOVED IN THE ICE AGE hugo boulders Bowl ders carried all tha WT froin canada to kentucky prof A R wallace states in the fortnightly review that an immense area of the northeastern states extending south to new york and then westward in an irregular line to cincinnati and st louis is almost wholly covered with a deposit of drift material in which rocks of various sizes are im bedded while other rocks often of enormous size lie upon the surface these blocks have been carefully stud aed by the american geologists and they present us ns with some very interesting te facts not only are the distances from which they have been transported very great but in ia very tory many cases they are found at greater elevation than the place from which they must have come prof G P F wright weight found an enormous accumulation of bo boulders bowl ders on a sandstone plateau in monroe county pa many of these bowl boulders ders were granite and must have come either from the adirondack mountains two hundred miles north or from the canadian highlands still further uway away this accumulation of bo bowl ders was seventy or eighty feet fee high and it extended many miles descending into a deep valley one thousand feet plateau in a nearly continuous line forming part of the southern moraine of the great american ice fee sheet on the kentucky hills about twelve miles south ot of cincinnati conglomerate boulders bowl ders containing pebbles of red jasper can be traced to a limited outcrop of the same rock roch in canada to the north of lako lake huron more than six hundred miles distant and similar boulders bowl ders have been found at intervals over the whole intervening country in both these ces cases the blocks must have passed over intervening valleys and hills the latter as high or near nearly ly as high as the source whence the rocks were derived even more remarkable are numerous boulders bowl ders of heldenberg helderberg Hel derberg limestone on the summit of tho the blue ridge eidge in pennsylvania which must have been brought from ledges at least five fire hundred feet lower than the places upon which they now lie the blue ridge bidge itself shows remarkable signs of glacial abrasion in a well defined shoulder marking the southern limit of the ice as indicated also by heaps of drift and errati cs so that mr wright concludes that several hundred feet of 0 f tho the ridge lidge have been worn away by the ice fee the crowning example of bowlder boulder transportation is however b OW afforded by the blocks of light gray gneiss discover discovered edby by prot prof hitchcock on the summit of mount washington over sis fit thousand feet above sea level and identified with bethlehem gneiss ancis whose nearest crop Is in jefferson several miles to the north northwest west and three thousand or four thousand feet lower iball mount washington MAY oo 00 Voit bitici icAe p alters ca gainen binea A and jtb ra r who U ire 0 the voica rely upon one minute chueh cure care to 0 o prevent nesa and laryngitis its ita balue ao aa a preventive tiva is only equaled eq baled by it power to afford in stane stannous ous bellof compact |