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ed in the hand for extracting the juice. This would 
deluge the depressed zone ; but how the elongated or ele- 
vated extremities were inundated, he does not inform us. 
Dr. Woodward supposes, that during the deluge, all the 
most solid bodies, as stones, metals, minerals and fossils, 
were totally dissolved and finally subsided again and 
formed rocks ; the water encompassing the whole.  After- 
wards an agent, seated within the earth, broke up these 
strata, forming mountains and vallies. continents, islands, 
nd seas. He does not tell us what Moses meant by the 
mountains, above which the waters of the deluge rose fif- 
teen cubits. 
From the days of the Lydian Xanthus to Granville 
Penn, great use has been made of earthquakes and sub- 
terranean fires, in accounting for the phenomena of the 
crust of the globe ; and it has been a favorite opinion, 
entertained even by some of the most respectable natu- 
ralists of the present day, that the sea and land changed 
places during the last diluvial catastrophe that happened 
to the globe. But we think Professor Buckland, as will 
proved that no such change has taken place. 
Hutchinson, the founder of a sort of visionary school, 
he was seduced by the extravagances of hypothesis, and 
Inserted in his work a plate exhibiting “the internal 
readers to make themselves well acquainted with this, as 
rendering plain and clear the philosophical explanations of 
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