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upon the highest land in this part of 

 our state? It was certainly brought 

 here, as were all other boulders, in 

 ice beds, either in great detached 

 masses of ice or icebergs, detached 

 portions of glaciers or glaciers them- 

 selves. These ice masses carried with 

 them from their rockbound mountain 

 homes portions of their confining walls 

 and these have been distributed over 

 the Eastern States, the largest ones 

 melting their way through thousands 

 of feet of ice and dropping upon the 

 ocean floor first, and the smallest last. 

 Thus it is that as one travels south- 

 ward the smaller the boulders are until 

 none can be found large enough to 

 throw at a bird. When these bould- 

 ers are more or less exposed they are 

 scoured by the ocean floor until their 

 journeyings are abruptly brought to an 

 end by impact with some high ground; 

 during this stage of their journeying 

 they ploughed furrows in the earth's 

 rock surface. Hence boulders are 

 usually on high or the highest ground. 

 After losing their ice hold they are 

 rolled and tumbled about by fierce 

 currents, still further rounded and pol- 

 ished, and often rolled down to lower 

 levels. The boulder floor thus pro- 

 duced by all this 'rolling and scouring 

 is carried on and eventually deposited 

 as clay beds. Thus we see our big 

 friend on the top of Italy Hill be- 

 comes to us as a "bench-mark" to 

 mark the height of the ancient ice- 

 tide. 



But the ancient sea extended much 

 higher than this, for this is the sea 

 bottom. In proof of this we climbed 

 some 200 feet higher and found fossil 

 sea sponges in an old stone pile. 

 These sponges grew there for we have 

 found them in places in the highest 

 hilltops in Italy. What changes our 

 earth has passed through! Italy Hill 

 once an ocean bottom where disported 

 the leviathans of the deep, as the con- 

 tinent rose higher, the waters receded 

 eastward and swift currents rushed 

 madly in varying directions, scooping 

 and deepening valleys, precisely pro- 



duced by sub-glacial streams. 



Thus we see in a stranded boulder, 

 one of the elements necessary for the 

 solution of the problem of the history 

 of the earth prior to the creation of 

 man. Berlin H. Wright. 



Further Notes on the Mosaic Ac- 

 count of Creation versus 

 Science. 



In the February and March num- 

 bers (1896) of the Museum, also in 

 the May number appeared articles on 

 the above subject. In the February 

 number, last half of second column, 

 page 104 and a third of the first col- 

 umn of 105, Mr. Whiting made some 

 good statements, but failed to prove 

 them. 



I will here attempt to prove his 

 statements and briefly consider several 

 points of Mr. Cooper's article m the 

 May number. 



Since none of the scientists agree 

 among themselves as to the age of 

 this world, and God Himself has not 

 told us how old this world is, there- 

 fore nobody knows. 



When Mr. Cooper states on page 

 178 that "According to Genesis the 

 world is 6000 years old" he makes a 

 statement that cannot be proven from 

 the Bible, if it were correctly render- 

 ed. By reference to Gen. I, i we 

 find that it says that "In the beginn- 

 ing God created ( bara) the heavens 

 and the earth. 



Now in Hebrew this word has the 

 meaning of creating or bringing into 

 existence. Between the first and sec- 

 ond verses of Genesis I is an immense, 

 unmeasurable chasm of time. 



■■■" The correct translation of verse 

 two of Gen. I is "The earth came to 

 be a wreck (tohuj and a ruin (bohu.) 

 The next question that comes to 

 our mind is, did God create it a wreck 

 and a ruin.' 

 No sir! 



* Bead a book entitled Earth's Earliest 

 Ages, by G. H Pember. A. C. Armstrong 

 & Hon, 714 Broailway, New York City. Prieo 

 $1.50. 



