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in contact with sand. Furze is one : sow it on a 

 newly made bank of clay and it will rarely grow ; 

 put a little gritty sand on the seed, and it will 

 certainly vegetate. There is no end to the vi- 

 tality of some of the round oily seeds when covered 

 in the earth. In most or all of the Essex Marshes, 

 wherever a new ditch is dug, brown mustard will 

 spring up, although it has not been seen before in 

 the memory of man. Where it has once been cul- 

 tivated, a crop is frequently obtained by plough- 

 ing deeper than usual, and a full plant will arise 

 in the spring. 



Certain states of the atmosphere produce certain 

 weeds in abundance, and some will grow only in 

 spring, others in autumn. In what way sand in 

 contact with |^d causes it to vegetate is, I be- 

 lieve, a mystery. Gardeners know well that with- 

 out silver sand many of the nicer operations of 

 their craft will not succeed. A. Holt White. 



Southend, 



The Deluge (2"'' S. il. 191.)— The argument 

 that the Deluge (Gen. vii. 20 — 24'.) did not extend 

 over the whole world, but only over the then in- 

 habited portion, may be thus stated : — 



1. The declared intention of Jehovah was to 

 destroy man, who had sinned, and not every 

 species of animated beings. Before the deluge, 

 man occupied only the country of the Tigris and 

 Euphrates. There existed, therefore, no necessity 

 for a deluge in any other part of the world. 



2. The word ^3 does not prove that the deluge 

 extended over the whole surface of this planet. 

 Compare Gen. ii. 19, 20., xli. 57.; Deut. ii. 25.; 

 Ezech. xxxi. 6. 



3. For the entire inundation of this globe the 

 waters of the sea, together with those of the 

 clouds, were insufficient. 



4. The remains of fishes and other animals, and 

 of aquatic plants, found at the top of high moun- 

 tains do not prove the Mosaic deluge to be uni- 

 versal ; but only that such parts of the earth were 

 anciently covered with water for a long period of 

 time, much beyond the duration of this deluge. 

 There may exist nevertheless remains of the Noa- 

 chic deluge. 



This hypothesis harmonises with the existing 

 facts ascertained in natural history, as to the dis- 

 tribution of plants and animals, and with the 

 measurements detailed by Moses. 



Further investigaticm will lead the inquirer to 

 such works as Jerusalem's Betrachtungen ilber die 

 vornehmsten Wuhrheiten der Religion^ P. ii. Com- 

 ment, iii. s. 1.; Hensler's Animadv., p. 331. &c. ; 

 and Eichhorn's AUg. Bihl. der Bibl. LitUratur, 

 P. I. Fas. i. pp. 38, 39. 



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