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[Illustration: No. 1.

THIS MAP SHOWS THE SPREAD OF GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS, AND THE EXTENSION
OF SOUTHERN LANDS DURING ICE AGE AND ALSO THE DIRECTION OF WINDS AND
OCEAN CURRENTS.]

[Illustration: No. 2.

THIS MAP SHOWS THE SPREAD OF GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS AND THE DIRECTION
OF WINDS AND CURRENTS AT THIS DATE.]




  THE
  COMING ICE AGE.


  BY
  C. A. M. TABER.


  BOSTON:
  GEO. H. ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET.
  1896.




  COPYRIGHT, 1896.
  BY C. A. M. TABER.


  GEO. H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 141 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.




PREFACE.


The explanations given in the following pages, in which I have sought
to show the manner in which an ice age is being brought about, is an
extension of a treatise on “The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods,”
which I published in a small 