New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-13

the first week Of my arrival at Rio Dc Jaiero exam
rise above the Bay Of Rio and there found unmstakab0
traces OF the former action Of glaciers and their presence
one time cold enough TO allow the accumulation Of ice
within the tropics II TO state the character Of the
have stated with reference to the presencS Of glaciers
WITHIN WITHIN 90 tn me- valley Of Switzerland AID upon the
ing northward from Rio to the neghbOrhood Of Pernam
visiting the valley OF the Amazon, have become salts
fled that once the whole valley OF the Amazon occu
des and reaching to the Atlantic am convinced that
all the loose materials which form the bottom Of the
SSoSd by that are aSsS oven e 9
land IN he same manner as the valley Of the Rhine is
ground in the Alps, AN and have been brought
down down by tue waters from the glaciers Of that
am satisfied that the glaciers themselves covered the
land one class Of the glaciers wanting nowhere are
the rocks exposed the action OF the tropical sun and
the warm rains are 50 discomposed that they dslne
the inequality that o. this rounding motion which
have everywhere where glaciers have been at work But
Inc OF the former presence Of the glacier though had
as have SAID none Of these direct evidences arising from
evidence 81 he riturated mass but trusting TO my fan
ty with these facts infer that the glacier OF me
sTn boundary Of South America on map n order to
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sSasSy st may u be traces Of the and terminal
mOrans Of that immense glacier located that terminal
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there is nodeta there. The longest river EARTH
destitute OF delta while the Nile, the Mississippi,
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once trtprated by the glacier and accumulated acc;
along the shore The evidence OF these glacial GeR9s
able. have them the Rio Negro on the Purns
on the Madeira on the TapaIo on the xng On tne TO
character aud showing that one and the same agent mas
been at WORK forming these deposits so IhS same ma
II these loose materials have been removed IRON the
Amazon 1t ia only account OF their soness They are
5s loan socaSaStsd + tie Valley q &c he
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amour: Of coast lost BY the OnerOach6i6hts o.
Sy e facts A %sh IhP observed Rl Our own Country
the Islands along the coast Of Maine. along t9e Bay
necticut Long Island included covered With loose
materials Of glacial character which are OF the same
kind those resting the continent, and OF the
same hight, showing that the sea must have washed
that which wanting for the level the continent and
the level on these lsaqds could not have been main.
tanned the same by the onward movement or glaciers II
there had been breaks there This furnishes us the eV
deuce that all these isolated parts OF land which stand
n the portions OF the continent con-
nCCted with IL only by the loose materials pushed forward
by the glaciers. And II may be permitted TO coneo ture
viii that the line which asorlbe To these accunu
latious within the limit OF sOundDgs IA along line where
the depth Ia from twenty 20 thirty fathoIns 10
that distance say from twenty 10 thirty miles, the
continent has az time extended in the form OF
drift accumuatons and tho bay OF Fundy on the coast
Scotia the bay OF Massachusetts, the sound and
All tho bays OF great rivers empying into the AZ
lantc, were once filled with loose materials
by this Immense sea Of Ice advancing toward
the ocean, and IL when the ocean began
10 gain on the rerratng glacier that these loose materials
were moved ont aud the melting OF the ice made room
fot the accumulation Of rsh water upon the surface and
thon freshets have taken place which have followed
stream and the surface Of the land has been
carved 10 IL present condition a. the temperature
gradually rose the masses Of ice dwindled away until
they were circumscrbcd within the Arctic region aud
the plain Of Brazil was free.