Midlands, 25,000 years old and existing for 9,000 years, when the waters of the Baltic Sea, then with out an outlet to the south, forced their way through a rocky' barrier the province of Nerke and press ed on to the North Sea; is the startling discovery claimed by Mr. H, Munthe, a Swedish geologist, who has now' completed "his the erotical researches by a number of practical observations of the district in question.
According to Mr. Munthe's report, the pressure of the ice cover. ing Scandinavia and great parts of the European continent during the glacial period was so heavy that at its centre in Sweden the ground sank about 200 metres. As the ice melted and retreated towards the north the ground rose even higher than its present [evel above the sea, and thus block-the southern outlet of the Baltic to the North Sea between Germany and Denmark. Across this ridge both the "Stone Age people and animals and plants wandered into Sweden, As the ice continued to retreat the southern parts of Sweden also ose, but in the neighbourhood of the" present Swedish township of Degerfors, in Nerke, sever: deep ravines enabled the pent-up Baltic Sea to find a new outlet. With tremendous force the icy waters of the Baltic widened these canyons, and here the Svea River was precipitated over the steep hills into the Let River valley, still in existence, thea flowing dove to the North Sea through the For 9,000 years roared: across "the craggy ridges in about twenty different channels. The average height of this pro-historic Niagara is calculated to have. been about sixty fect and its width over 2,000 feet, allowing water flow of more than 6,000 cubic meters a second. This mighty spectacle was gradually reduced to nothing us the joe continued its retreat and the ground rose enn rreapondingly.—Reuter.
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