220 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



*' veft, and cold and heat, and Summer and Win- 

 '* ter, and day and night, (liall not ceafe *." 



There muft he nothing fuperfluons in the Word$ 

 of the Author of Nature, as there is nothing of 

 this defcription in his Works, The Dehige, as has 

 been aheady mentioned, commenced on the fe- 

 venteenth day of the fécond month of the year, 

 which was among the Hebrews, as with us, the 

 month of February. Man had by this time 

 caft the feed into the ground, but reaped not the 

 harveft. That year, cold fucceeded not to the 

 heat, nor Summer to Winter, becaufe there was 

 neither Winter nor cold, from the general fufion 

 of the polar ices, which are their natural focufes ; 

 and the night, properly fo called, did not follow 

 the day, becaufe then there was no night at the 

 Poles, where there is alternately one of fix months, 

 becaufe the Sun, purfuing the diredion of a Me- 

 ridian, illuminated the whole Earth, as is the cafe 

 now, when he is in the Equator. 



To the authority of Genefis, I Ihall fubjoin a 

 very curious paffage from the Book of Job-f-, 

 which defcribes the Deluge, and the Poles of the 

 World, with the principal charaders of them which 

 1 have juft been exhibiting. 



* Gen. ch. viii. ver. 22. t Ch. xxxviii. 



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