The Ancient Great Glacier of North America: A Newly Discovered Document of a Revolution in 19th Cent

Part I John Kimball DeLaski.- Biographical sketch.- The manuscript.- Part II The Ancient Great Glacier of North America.- Preface.- The phenomena of boulder drift.- Carver's Harbor.- Research on rocks.- Vinalhaven and North Haven.- Camden Hills and Mount Desert.- Mount Desert to Holden.- Bangor to the Piscataquis Valley.- Mount Katahdin.- The inescapable conclusion - A large glacier.- Evidence from all over North America.- Boulder drift theories.- Objection to iceberg theory continued.- An astronomical theory.- Astronomical theory continued.- Theory of mutable axis of the earth.- Continental upheaval and subsidence.- The changeable relations of land and water.- Supposed cause of the cold period.- Geologic record since the Devonian.- The climate cools.- A glacial time.- Duration of the glacial age.- End of the glacial age.- On the motion of glaciers.- Purpose of the glacier.- Late-glacial cold-water marine shells of Maine and adjacent regions.