The Vedic fathers of geology

PicTuRE oF THE Ick aND Recent AGE. 157

Geology of the Orient. The Reader, therefore, will have easily perceived, that our Vedic fore-fathers having seen the Great Ice Age, they were good enough to kindly give to their progeny and to the world the true picture and lively account of what they themselves had seen, heard, or known by tradition, and have thereby placed them under deep obligation. Thus, the afore-said passage from the Aitareya Brahmana, quoted above on page 143, presents. to us a vivid sketch of the Glacial Era, and of the commencement of the Quaternary or Recent Period in its true colours, though the language used therein seems to us, at this distant date, enigmatical, and the sense abstruse. However, the description though brief, is yet terse and graphic, and brings vividly to our mind the chain of events as had then occurred. ( Vide ante np. 144 @149 ).

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