A DISMAL PROPHECY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9156, 1 August 1908, Page 4

A DISMAL PROPHECY.

The terrible pronouncement has just been made by no less an authority than Professor Garret P. Serviss, that the time is coming when a great part of the civilised world will be overwhelmed with mountains of ice advancing from the ( north, burying hills, lakes, forests, rivers and cities

mder their glittering mass, and driv-

ing millions upon millions of human beings, and countless animals of all descriptions, a thousand miles towards the equator for refuge. Such is the prediction of geology, if we may accept the conclusions recently reach' ep by the investigators who have been studying the phenomena of "raised beaches," which are to be found all over the northern hemisphere "Raised beaches" testify to the fact that during some recent geologic epoch the lands where they exist were submerged beneath the waves of the great lak-is or of the ocean. The mo*t significant thin? about the whole phenomenon is the fact that it is recurrent.' in its nature. It come-j again and again, but the lap3e of time between two invasions is long enough to permit the growth of new civilisations and new empires.