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wrath from time to time poured out upon the heads of geologists, 

 the world has not grown much wiser since. The harmony of 

 physics and divinity would seem as important as before Super- 

 stition vailed to Truth. Astronomy has had her system-makers, 

 who constructed untenable hypotheses, to force her pheno- 

 mena to agree with holy writ ; and the sister science has not 

 been wanting in votaries, who would make the first chapters 

 of Genesis her Procrustean bed. Yet they to whose peculiar 

 province such enquiries belong are not all agreed upon the 

 authenticity of these chapters. Some divines, and learned 

 ones too, hold the inspired portion of the Old Testament to 

 commence with the call of Abraham. Into the merits of this 

 opinion we do not mean to enter ; we only notice it to show 

 that disagreement between science and scripture may t\6t 

 exercise so fatal an influence on the latter as many seeni to 

 imagine. In the mean time, the theologico-geological dis- 

 pute may do good. Medicine is indebted to alchemy for one 

 esteemed preparation ; and who can say what important facts 

 may be discovered by the keen eye of controversy, eVeti 

 should its object be as frivolous? The present work, as its 

 title imports, is devoted to a comparison of the sacred and 

 scientific systems of geology ; and its object is to prove the 

 compatibility of modern discoveries with the description of 

 the creation, as handed down by Moses. For this purpose, 

 short outlines of practical and theoretical geology are given, 

 and in a style sufficiently popular to enable the general reader 

 to judge of the accuracy of the author's conclusions. These 

 are given in the third part of the work ; and if he should rise 

 from its perusal unconvinced, he will at least have the satis- 

 faction of finding himself in possession of the leading^ facts an|d. 

 theories of one of the most interesting of sciences, r^ ^r '^"r' * 



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^ Part the First of Dr, Hooker's Continuation of Smithes 

 English Flora, is nearly ready. It contains the mosses, He- 

 paticse. Lichens, Characese, and y^'lgae, with plate&s^^fjq 801 



Part the Second, which will contain the i^ungij ^4 coin- 

 plete the volume, will be speedily published. ; \ 



Mr, Bakewell has prepared for publication the ^ Fourth 

 Edition of his excellent Introduction to Geology, considerably 

 enlarged, with an additional chapter, containing a review of 

 the prevailing theories of geology, as suppacted by eisi^tlogi 

 phenomena. . ^ '^^'f*''^' ^"^ ^'^Y'"^^ ^^"^ 



