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eminent authorities on this subject. Mr. Geikie, in
‘The Great Ice Age,’ asserts that the great glaciers
of this region extended not merely beyond the
Lofodens, but right across to Scotland, and
repeats this statement in many places with especial
emphasis. Thus in summing up, on p. 561,
he says, “All northern Europe and northern
America disappeared beneath a thick crust of ice
and snow, and the glaciers 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 from the mountains, following the direction
of the principal valleys, and pushing far out to
sea, where it terminated at last in deep water
many miles away from what now forms the coast
line of our country. This sea of ice was of such
extent that the glaciers of Scandinavia coalesced with
those of Scotland and the north-eastern districts of
England upon what is now the floor of the shallow
North Sea, while a mighty stream of ice flowing
outwards from the western seaboard obliterated
the Hebrides, and sent its icebergs adrift in the
deep waters of the Atlantic.”
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