The Vedic fathers of geology

GEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITY OF THE VEDAS. 63

with their Mother-Country A ryavarta, till at the advent of the Great Ice Age, compelled, all of a sudden,—by devastating floods of Ice, affecting the higher latitudes, alike of the Old and the New-World,—to return to their Original Home in A rydvarta, or settle in countries which could give them refuge. And we have irrefragable evidence in support of these facts, which, therefore, I proceed to place before the Reader presently.

Tt has been scientifically proved, and al Geologists have unanimously agreed, that the climate of the A'rctic Regions was milder! before the advent of the Great Ice Age or the Pleistocene Period, and that owing to the existence of genial climate there, in the ‘Tertiary Epoch, these regions had become habitable. It was evidently then, that our older ancestors had, after leaying Aryavarta, colonised them and setiled there. This has been proved by very ancient sources of evidence of the hoary past; and the

1 For, Dr. Dana the American geologist says, “The mild temperature of the A’retic is further evident from the.... formation of thick strata of lime-stone (which) shows that life like that of lower latitudes not only existed there, but flourished in tropical profusion.” (Manual of Geology. pp, 224-5. Hd. 1863),