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over the ice floes fear-stricken by the awful cataclysm.
If the arrival of the aerolites antedated that of man,
did they fall but a short time previous to his advent, or thous-
ands of years ago, during the glacial epoch, when this entire re-
gion region was covered by an unbroken ice sheet?
The fact that the two aerolites when discovered were not
buried in the ground, and that there were no indications of crush-
ing of the rocks beneath them or abrasion or indentation of the
undersurfaces of the aerolites themselves; phenomena which must
have accompanied their direct fall upon the ground, would seem to
indicate that they had originally descended upon the surface of
the then much expanded ice sheet, and upon its recession had grad-
ually settled to the positions in which they were found.
On the other hand, one of the enormous snow drifts which
form along this coast even in ordinary winters, might have receiv-
ed the aerolites and cushioned their fall completely, allowing the
presumably high temperature of the masses to effect their gradual
descent and final deposition upon the under-lying rocks.
The existence of the Eskimo legend already noted above
in regard to these aerolites, lends color to the belief that their
arrival was subsequent to that of man; else how could these rude
natives have obtained any idea of their heavenly origin, and why
should not the brown masses have been to them simply "Weeaksue"
(rocks) like all the others in their country, including the soap-
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