Excerpt from Creeds of the Day, or Collated Opinions of Reputable Thinkers, Vol. 2 Above the bed of the Cromer forest, whose ancient stumps are occasionally exposed, are fluvio-marine sands and clays, containing both salt and fresh water shells; above this the boulder-clay, - the great witness of the ice age. In it are blocks of stone 6 or 8 feet in diameter, polished and scratched by the rough journey from their distant homes in Scandinavia. In places, this boulder clay is 80 feet in thickness; and geologists agree that during its formation the cold reached the maximum of its intensity. This is the time, too, when the map of Great Britain has to be represented by a few isolated, specks, the highest of the snow-covered peaks of our mountain ranges. Wales, like Scotland, says Professor Ramsay, also became a cluster of islands, round which the drift was deposited, &c. In this stratified material, sea-shells were long ago found in Caernarvonshire by Mr. Trimmer on Moel Tryfaen, and by myself near Snowdon from I 100 to 1400 feet above the sea.1 Drift, similar to that of Moel Tryfaen, extends continuously to the height of 2300 feet. In Scotland it is found 2000 feet high; in the Killarney district, 2500 feet; in Derbyshire, 700. But Lyell reminds us that a subsidence of no more than 600 feet would reduce the whole of the British Isles to an archipelago of very small islands, Few and far between, then, must have been the low and fog-capped hills above the frozen ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.