Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Ice Age of America. [ARTICLE]

Ice Age of America.

One of the most interesting of recent contributious of arenaetogical interest is Prof. Weight’s lecture on the “Ice age of America.” Prof. Wright shows that the whole backbond of I Long Island is formed of glacial de- ! posits, ;nd he takes his hearers all along the moraines that marks the farthest points touched by the wonderful field of ice. The lecture concludes with a description ot the small stone god recently brought up by a sand pump near Boise City,. Idaho, from a depth of 320 feet He and many other | scientists think it is the oldest mark of • human life that has yet been discovered, and believe it to be the work of the t ante-diluvian man.