The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-02

the corresponding polar points are easily
deduced.
While steam may accompany an exhi-
bition of volcanic energy. II Ia not Its
main factor, nor even an important ac-
cessory thereto. The volcanic power
would be just as potent In the absence
Of water to make steam. as with its pres
cree, which Is exceptional. This may be
at variance with much so-ealIed scientific
taching. but the evidence for this vari-
ance Is irrefutable Mr.. Strahorn, TAX
ing his cue from the easy chair school
Of glacial age" geologists whose sole
ambition seems to be to try to tread In
the merely hypothetical tracks Of the late
Prof. Agassix, tells us that this great
fre region was once CONCEALED by vast
glaciers" Like charity, which may be
made to cover multitude OF sins. this
elastic glacial msconception r. a con-
venient cover for a mass OF phenomena
which glasialism cannot refer to any log
ical explanation.
According to these teachers. who would
have us but believe" as in the domain
Of unreasoning superstition, one must
conclude that this wonderful glacial ac-
ton In about the only really antic. sreaky.
wholly humorous and gnexpiainably ca
PRECIOUS phenomenon In nature. Here is
how Mr.. Strahorn bitches the glacial
idea TO the geological piow to construct
Wuhuettui LAKE tncian IN It's MIRACULOUS
ly varying and enchanting surroundings:
"one OF these glaciers swept ninety
miles down the valley now occupied by
Lake Chelan, canning the Columbia
river. which finally escaped through that
giant causeway, the Grand, coulee.''
This Washington lake has its lower end
In region OF the finest fruits and fiow-
ers. thrusts itself into the heart of the
Cascades into scenehy that equals II not
a..
here are glaciers that pierce so high Into
the blue. that they seem hanging down
from the heavens. and these the Yosem-
lite has not. This Lake Chelau glacier
left sheet Of water whose prototvr-
probably exists nowhere else
True. only in this, that the lake was
not left by tho. glacier. nor was It's
basin gnuged out hy 1t.
Though not fully fathomed IT'S waters
are known To extend more than 900 feet
below tide level. but why any one with
even kindergarten aaalysis. should con-
cetve that glaciers can do such uuphy-
steal scooplng. Is only explainable on the
hypothesis Of utter ignorance OF the law
thar governs then action.
At Fonaalen. IN Norway. is an nlustra-
ton OF where a glacier covered a pine
forest--covered Il aen feet deep. then IN
time melted away. so that Its recession
again disclosed the forest. trees and
branches all intact. the Hoor % cones I'M
disturbed. everything as unharnsd as II
only zephyr had PASSED that way nn,
Lake Chelan aud other North Ancrtran
lakes Chamquni and others IN the Swiss
Airs, have bccse according "a the gga.
oialists. geused by the Ice. downward and
upward out o. the solid granite. IN so;ne
Instances thousand feet below the teseI
Of the sea. and some thousands below
their surr0undingsl
NON. there has never been a x,neger az,
the globe that has moved over 4 iasa "a.
scent than q feet 70 The mile. such /.
phenomenon 40 The glacier that hvpothet-
iealsy ewcpt down over an ~ Northern
, North America 10 the latitude ~ KEN
tgckv.4 T. q suwrenas tmposslbltlsv "a the
physics bearing on the case Haye ihgsa
suen isNase8 te consider that its ALLEGED
terminal moraine IL So feet higher tban
ts initial movement from the polar 80 ;
~ = ms io@ gnmeanlng fact 90 bc he
tsrrent 10 their nsgAts % fAneyr
/ Tae entire Yukon and Aisrkens,e ,f,..
/ divides here IN 'oaly aimlnufsve sis-iqft,n
/ --all the giants are nsar the cssst. Were
( there Gan be a supply ~ vapar ia r,akr
I theuA- Like a rtin 90 snowfall IA elas-srr
Z Is necessarily a loeai proposition t,. size
depends nes alone on algh Rltitaae ~
{ aiNa AautHaH. but on brins fe the rath
3 where NSpar and condemnation NAV 40
( togethsF. Naror viii rot SO rsr inland
/ from rs supplying water ARA. over re.
/ slens % low temperature. The coast
l mountain ranges exact such a trfhvts
{ from the moisture that rises from the "a.
cihe a. IN leave dry the rexioars east ~
( saem- \ summer thunder shower seld m
Z covers per cent. in precipitation az ths
amount % area thai contributed th, va
/ per tor condensation. Precisely the same
( law bears On tho formation % glaciers.
There cannot be a colossal. continental
See giant with only his toena4ls as area
I TO draw material from.
New as TO steam as the potent volcanic
( factor. From the earth'a outer strata
I char through ies Diameter 81 aH its suaee
I there exists something. Water cannot
! penetrate there until that something has
made Its exit. No faster can water entsr