Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-03-07
Professor Wright's Talk at Mar
BILE Collegiate Church.
Hood story In Genesis, Says the Lee
turer, ~ Not SO Extrnvngnut as II
Seems Ark Was about the size
of Atlantic Liners.

|ge, said:
BIOLOGISTS believe in the glacial period.
he more they know the more they believe
it. The general public has but vague
lea Of the significance of that all-im-
brtart era in the worlds history. A few
(ousand years ago SHOWS accumulated
FER North America and Europe so much
)ster than they melted that the con-
|tons of Greenland were made to extend
outward in America to New York city,
|ncinnati, ard the southern part OF Him
f. while in Europe the ice filled the North
Ia, covering Great Britain down to the
|cinity of London, overwhelming all
(rthern Germanyand extending to Kefl
southern Russia. Altogether. about
X million square miles OF territory were
Ivered with ice. n mile or more in depth
the Boston Society of Natural History,
the right side of the stairway which
es up into the museum is a glacial
builder taken from the top of Mr.. Wash
gton, which must have beer. brought by
ice for come distance to the north.
@ summit of Mt. Washington is con-
lerably more than 4 mile in height.
( the ice was mile deep over the
hcial area. it would amount to six mil
n cubic miles. All this represents water
.aporated from the ocean ard falling
S wn as snow. The abstraction Of that
lount of water from the ocean would
{wer the ocean level about 800 feet the
prd over. This ice would weigh 240oo-
coo, 600 tons, almost equal to the
al weight of the North American Cor
ent above sea Level. Chamberlain ard
lsbury. in their recent great work on
ology, think it probable that the ice
s two miles, and possibly three miles,
ok over this area
these facts so overwhelming to the i'm
tion. have untold significance with
Ference to the early history of mankind.
Is accumulation Of ice was connected
tn enormous changes in land levels. Be
Re the glacial period the land was els
ted 1000 feet or more over the northern
rt of America and Europe. One proof of
s was brought 10 light q few weeks
b by the engineers who were construct
a conduit to carry water from the
st side of the Hudson River to New
rk city. They were crossing the river
title above West Point. II was neces-
|y to get to the rock bottom of the
|er: but they found that they were COM
IL
ht bottom of the river before striking
X bottom at that point, This means
t in pre-glacial times the
d in that region stood so high that the
Image of Hudson River had free course
the sea through gorge 500 feet deeper
n that which we now see. Numerous
hilar facts show that the elevation was
least 1000 feet
tut at the close of the eacia period the
ID in the northern part of America WAS
PRESSED in the Champlain valley and at
ntrca coo feet below the present level,
further north 1000 feet. so that
ales circulated in water covering the
amplain valley. Indications OF this
at depression of land in the northern
nisphere abound in Sweden. in south
Russia, and all over the western part
Siberia and central Asia.
MAN DESTROYED BY FLOODS.
he significance fact bearing upon our
bject is that man was in the world 10
ness the closing stages Of this remark
e era, and to share in the vicissitudes
those changes of level. and that he
5 probably destroyed over a large por-
Oh lUf lpTlllfTu hemisphere ny INV
ds which accompanied the melting off
the glacial ice and by the disturbances
the conditions OF life which accom-
ned that epoch The remains of glacial
n are found in the high-level grave,s
northern France and southern Europe,
similar gravels az Trenton. n j., and
the northern tributaries Of the Ohio
(cr. In the Peabody Museum in Cam
1ge, Mass. will be found the enormous
ection of DR.. c. c. Abbott from Tren-
n. j., a considerable number of
pse specimens are certified to and oc-
ing in the undsturbed gravel deposit
during the flood from the melting ice
tch gorged the Delaware River at that
mother most important class of pre-
oric remains are found beneath the
IS, a fine loan occurring extensively in
trail Europe in the Missouri valley in
erica, over the plains Of southern Rus
and in central Asia. This is now oy
hest authorities regarded as the re.
ms of water deposit, connected with
closing scenes OF the glacial period.
fently human remains have been
nd underneath the deposits at Kev.
PRUSSIA, AZ near l1tdNeuWOILl,
b.: and now, last of ALL near Omaha
b. These latter have been carefully
ded by Professor Barbour of Nebras-
University, and are clearly shown TO
he remains Of n primitive race of men
Ftlne before the floods which deposited
loess and they were washed into
Re by them.
Is also a well-knoun fact, cmpha-
|d especially by Darwin and Wallace
In connection with the glacial period
re was an enormous destruction Of
mai species over all the northern hem
lere. Before that time the rhnoceros
potomamns, the elephant and num-
or other species that have now en-
~ ceased, roamed over central Eu-
f., while horses. tnpirs, mastadons, and
hants were aboundant IN North A.
ica. i5ut all these and many others
appeared over those regions. while
by of them passed away entirely. II
mot an improbable suppostion that
himself disappeared with them. so
what Is called "paleolithic man" is
likely antedluvian man.
he theory OF the food therefore, as
how presents itself plausibly to the
logst, is. that in connection with the
table condition of things accompany
the glacial epoch man was in process
fotal destruction when the final catas-
Phe described in Genesis occurred. and
related TO the entire remaining men,
of the race.
BIBLE STORY EXAMINED
he story of the hOod I'm the pihlo