John Milne

“ If we take a map of Northern Europe on which are indicated the general direction of ice-markings, any inference which can be drawn from such directions, which all point more or less at right angles to the sea-coast, is as favourable to the view that they were produced by coast-ice acting on a rising area as it is to the fact that they point out the direction in which the great ice-sheets travelled. ”

“ Many of the phenomena presented by our northern countries and attributed to ice-action are readily explained by the supposition of coast-ice acting on a rising area, but only with difficulty when either glaciers or ice-sheets are supposed to have been the grinding agents. ”

“ Rocks which at high water are hidden from view, but at low water appear as small islands. 2. Those small islands which are always above sea-level, but yet are annually covered with ice, which is driven up their sides and over their summits by outside pressure. ”