Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

PART II.

Che Comet.

CHAPTER I. A COMET CAUSED THE DRIFT.

Now, good reader, we have reasoned together up to this point. To be sure, I have done most of the talking, while you have indulged in what the Rey. Sydney Smith ealled, speaking of Lord Macaulay, “brilliant flashes of silence.”

But I trust we agree thus far that neither water nor ice caused the Drift. Water and ice were doubtless associated with it, but neither produced it.

What, now, are the elements of the problem to be solved ?

First, we are to find something that instantaneously increased to a yast extent the heat of our planet, vaporized the seas, and furnished material for deluges of rain, and great storms of snow, and accumulations of ice north and south of the equator and in the high mountains.

Secondly, we are to find something that, coming from above, smashed, pounded, and crushed “as with a maul,” and rooted up as with+a plow, the gigantic rocks of the surface, and scattered them for hundreds of miles from their original location.