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rapidly during our summer time, and thus afford
the southern hemisphere the longer summer and
shorter winter that we now enjoy. Then will the
ice revisit Scandinavia, the great glaciers creep
over all its hills and valleys as of old, picking up
these blocks that were left behind some twenty
thousand years before to carry them we know not
whither.
Nothing more is needed for all this than a
simple interchange between the climates of the two
halves of the world. No shifting of the earth’s
axis, no extreme convulsion, is demanded ; for if
under the present distribution of terrestrial climate,
the southern hemisphere had as much land around
its poles as the northern hemisphere now has, it
would be glaciated from the South Pole down to
the latitude corresponding to that of London.
As it is, in spite of the great advantage possessed
by the southern hemisphere in its vast circumpolar
ocean, extending with only a few dots of land
between its poles and its tropics, it is utterly
icebound and inaccessible to human footsteps, at
latitudes corresponding to this Fillefjeld.
Notwithstanding my profound respect for the
laborious researches and philosophic reasonings of
such noble students of creation as Sir Charles Lvell,
Mr. Croll, the two Geikies, Ac., Ac., Ac., I cannot
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