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4. To Commissioners of turnpike roads. 5. To brickmakers. 6. 

 To statuaries. 7. To clothiers who need Fuller's earth. 8. To 

 coal adventurers. In this he alludes to unsuccessful trials for 

 coal. In one case his father, he says, laid out £100,000 before 

 getting any return. 9. I\Iiueral adventurers. 10. " The science 

 of Geology becomes of infinite importance -when we consider it as 

 connected with our immoital hopes. These depend on the truth 

 of revelation, and the whole system of revealed religion is inti- 

 mately connected with the veracity of Moses. The divine legation 

 of Christ and of the Jewish Lawgiver must stand or fall together. 

 If the Mosaic account of the creation and of the deluge is true, 

 and consequently the promises recorded by him well founded, we 

 may retain our hopes ; but should the foinaier be given up as false, 

 we must renounce the latter." 



He answers the objection that at the deluge the water coiild not 

 have risen more than thirty feet, and the calculations of mathe- 

 maticians, that if the water did cover the mountain tops they 

 could not tell where it came from, by this : — 



"But when we consider that the fountains of the great deep were broken 

 up, and that the ocean poured its whole contents upon the earth, it must be 

 clear to us that a sufficient quantity of water could not be wantiag for the 

 destruction of a guilty world." 



He goes on to say some " pretenders to science " have appealed 

 to the natural evidence of the antiquity of the present system in 

 opposition to the chronology of Moses, but the end of his argument 

 (p. 436) is this :— 



" Thus have I demonstrated that the Mosaic account of the Deluge, does 

 not merely accord with traditional reports universally diffused through 

 civilized and savage nations ; but is confirmed by infallible records inscribed 

 on our Alpine rocks and legible on all the strata, discovered by our deepest 

 excavations in the bowels of the earth. The veracity of Moses as an historian 

 stands therefore unimpeached by the natural evidence to be derived from the 

 actual condition of our globe." 



Then follow the twenty-one plates of the " Extraneous fossils," 

 He says, — 



" My object in this part of my work is to enable my readers by means of 

 extraneous fossils to distinguish the several strata of our island. 



Such is the plan of this remarkable book. One's curiosity is 



