The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-12

ceeding on a scale that menaces the
whole civilized world with destruction.
PROOFS FROM THE BOULDERS.
II there is fact more clearly proven
than any other, it is that the earth has
| been the theater again and again of
| the most tremendous cataclysms
Needless to recall at this moment all
the books that have been written to
show that the face of the world can be
explained only by deluge Their
name Is legion. Only few can be here
mentioned. More than one hundred
Years ago Bertrand de Hamburg
| wrote book entitled ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Per1odlque DIES Continents" in which
| ne not only recognized the oscillation
| OF the oceans from pole to pole, at long
| intervals, but aScribed these move
mentS to their true cause, namely. the
! shifting of the earth's center of grav-
| ity.
In 1872 NJ. Joseph Adhemar published
his world renowned Revolutions de la
Mer, in which he undertook to show
mat the earth is subject to great pc
rlodieal flood every 10000 years, as a
result Of the procession of the equi-
noxes, which he claimed. causes each
OF the poles to receive a maximum Of
cold alternately, and so bring on i
corresponding period of glaciation A
good account of his theory is given in
All the Year Round vol g. and in
"Cyclican Deluges," by J. B. walker
Following Adhemar, NJ LIE Hon, his
foremost disciple, a professor in the
military school at Brussels, wrote La
Periodicite des Grands Deluges," in
which he essayed to outline no less
than fourteen of the great periodical
floods by which the earth has been
ravaged.
All the northern parts of the world"
says DR.. Edmond Hitchcock, have
been swept over by a powerful current
from the northwest to the southeast.
Inc ol!uvlai waters must have been
oceanic What other agency could
have produced a current two thousand
miles in width?"
In truth a series of tremendous floods
have devastated the surface of the
globe, leaving our hemisphere to wit
ness their power the extraordinary
phenomenon which has been named
the diluvium of the north. Innumer
able blocks of all dimensions have been
torn from regions near the pole, and
have been transported along every me-
rldian down to the fifty-second paral-
lei, and raised to attitudes exceeding,
In many cases, 500 yards above
their starting point. These blocks are
scattered over the plains and table
lands of the old and new worlds. They
are usually called ''erratic rocks or
powders. Their abundance and their
volume are in proportion to the lati-
tude. The nearer they are to the pole
the more considerable are their num-
Der and dimensions. In beholding the
sharpness of their edges, the promi-
nence their angles, the freshness of
their fractures and their perfect pres
ervatlon, you are tempted to say that
some colossal hand clutching them at
their point of departure, has deposited
them unaltered at their destination.
NOT only the large powders, but the
Whole thaol mass of material with
Places TO greater or less
extent, as If washed about by
floods. and it is for this reason that the
material has been called drift. Moth
ing resembling this drift is found in
tropical or low latitude countries. but
1t is everywhere in the north temperate
and polar regions, so that we know to-
day just what to think of 1t.
1t is the washings Of the worlds
greatest recurrent floods.
In both Europe and America MANY of
the stones thus transported hundreds
or miles, exceed one thousand tons in
weight. The Churchill Rock" at Not
tlngham, N. H., described by Prof.
c.. Fl. Hitchcock, is sixty-two. forty
and forty feet in its diameters, and is
estimated to weigh about six thousand
tons; The Green Mountain Giant"
at Nottingham, VT, weighs about
three thousand TONS Prof o. N. eros
by has described a bowlder on the
eastern border of New Hampshire, hav-
ing dimensions of thirty, forty and
seventy-five feet. and weighing six
thousand tons. In Ohio there is one
sixteen feet thick and covering three
quarters Of an acre
Now, how came all these stones,
amounting to millions Of millions of
tons. scattered over millions Of square
n II OF the earths surface as if cast
there by the hands of some giant? How
came millions of tons Of clay, rounded
PEOPLES and all the other matters of
Inc dflft, to be associated with them ?
There can be only one answer to these
questions
1t was flood that did it, and not
merely one, but many-an ever recur-
ring mood which comes from the South
Pole: as the result of it's eternally re-
curing glaciation.