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present southern one; phenomena immutably appertaining to the 
position, not construction, of the planet’s southern hemisphere. 
“In illustration of this impressive subject, we will remark that, 
through the same revolutionary precision, the identical 23rd degree 
of our present northern hemisphere, as above delineated, actually 
passed beneath the perihelion beams that vivified the Earth’s planet 
10,450 years back! And, moreover, with regard to the present 
southern hemisphere, that the same 23rd southern degree, annually 
reflecting the perihelion rays of the present age, actually received 
them 20,931 years ago! and, guided by a like unalterable precision, 
20,931 years hence shall again pass beneath their unerring irradia- 
tion! The Almighty dispenser of all things ordaining the invariable 
embosomment of one half this planet, alternately, within the fertiliza- 
tion of a southern hemisphere ; no doubt infinitely more regenerative 
than would be a northern one. Provisional care we thus every where 
find pervading celestial machinery, even in its minutest details! In 
every 20,931 years, therefore, the same periodic phenomena are re- 
peated, from recurrence of the same causes! Behold here stupendous 
cycles of progressive changes ! astounding in result, imperceptible in 
operation. Each gradation occupying 5,232 years, their opposite ef- 
fects 10,450 years, and the entire accomplishment of their phenome- 
na, twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-one ! 
“Tt is calculated that the present state of earthly phenomena shall 
generally continue until the passage beneath the perihelion point of 
the 174 degree of southern declination; that is, during the period 
that the Earth’s celestial crossing point retrogradeth along four com- 
plete signs, or during 6,977 years, whereof 4,670 years have expired. 
No considerable hemispheric changes from this perihelion revolution 
are consequently to be expected until about the year 4,719 of our 
christian era, when they will become very apparent. Referring to 
the past, the last grand hemispheric change is calculated to have taken 
place 5,814 years ago, or 4,002 years before the christian era; the 
very date of the Mosaic account of the creation, and exhibiting, in all 
probability, visible phenomena such as are described in the first chap- 
ter of Genesis. In due progression of time the middle southern de- 
gree passed beneath the perihelion rays about the year of the world 
2258, producing probably such effect in that hemisphere as may be 
| imagined from the Mosaic and other accounts of the deluge then tak- 
ing place. Referring to the future, the next time the Earth’s equator 
passes beneath the perihelion point it will be from south to north, in 
the year of the christian era 6,463, or 4,651 years hence; a period so 
remote that, without physical change, the very name of Britain will 
be forgotten! In the year 8,207 of our christian era, the Earth’s 
(present) middle northern degree of declination will pass beneath the 
vertical perihelion rays, producing very visible effects on this, our ac- 
tual northern hemisphere. Between that period and the year 15,184, 
this present northern—then the southern—hemisphere, with all its 
superb machinery of kingdoms, empires, and republics, will probably 
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