PEAT BOGS AND TURBARIES. 91 



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BT REV. W, PHELPS, F.S.A. 



THE various changes apparent on the surface of the 

 earth since the first creatlon, bave attracted the 

 attention of the philosopher from an early period of the 

 history of the world ; whilst the more recent discoveries of 

 the geologist, have developed the great disorganisation and 

 derangenient of the component parts of the outward crust 

 of the habitable globe. 



The effects of the general deluge are vislble both on the 

 ßurfiice of the earth and beneath it ; and when we penetrate 

 its superficial crust, or descend into the deepest mines, we 

 find evident traces of the awful catastrophe consequent 

 upon the breaking upof the " fountains of the great deep"; 

 and the present State of the earth's surface is not such as 

 could have been the result of its original formation, for it 



