The Vedic fathers of geology

72 Tue Vepic FAaTuers or GroLocy.

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सकृदेवोदितं तद्वदराश्च तखादेमम्‌ i (Stirya Siddhanta. XII. 67).

Now, the phenomena of eyer-lasting or rather continuous Dawns, long days, and long nights, are the sure characteristics of the Polar regions, and as these traditions are always “founded on the observation of Nature,’ as remarked by Sir Charles Lyell in his Elements of Geology (vol. I.p. 8. Edn, 11th ), we have every reason to suppose that at one time, in the bygone-Age ( gu ), our Rrg-Vedic ancestors and their forefathers had certainly colonised the Arctic regions and made vast settlements there. It appears, therefore, necessary to find out when this was done, and also to see whether there is any evidence to fortify our conclusions.

Itseems,that the climate of the A retic Circle was genial, and the regions, as far as the NorthPole, were habitable in the Tertiary Epoch and before the place was invaded by Ice, which not only occupied the higher latitudes but rendered the Arctic regions unsuited for the habitation of man, beast, and even plant. In the ight of these geological facts, therefore, as also Vedic evidence, placed before the reader heretofore, it appears that in the Tertiary Epoch and hefore the advent of the Great Ice Age, the adventurous progeny of our Primitive fore-fathers had, after leaving their Mother-Country- A’rydvarta,-