182 Observations on the late excessive cold Weather. 
of creation is represented as simply progressive, which is little 
consonant with a series of creations and extinctions of whole 
races antecedent to the formation of man, Could these ap- 
parently irreconcilable discordancies be overlooked, still Doctor 
Prichard’s parallel between the facts detailed in Genesis and 
those inferred from geological observation would fail. According 
‘to the sense in which the twentieth and two followmg verses of 
the first chapter of Genesis have hitherto been generally under- 
stood,-all the inhabitants of the waters were called into existence 
on the fifth day; while geological inference places the orders of 
testacea and zoophytes in the third; that is, in a period when, 
according to Moses, nothing animate was created. It is true, 
Doctor Prichard thinks their deficiency in loco-motion sufficient 
to exclude them from the fifth day’s creation. But besides that 
this criticism may be suspected of over-refinement, it is to be 
observed that, if they be excluded from that day, it is absolutely 
certain that Moses has assigned them no other. When, there- 
fore, zoophytes for their analogy to vegetables, and testacea 
without participating in that analogy, are removed from the 
fifth to the third day, and we are afterwards called upon to 
admire the coincidence of the series of the facts detailed in 
Genesis with those inferred from geologicai phenomena, Doctor 
Prichard seems to forget that the coincidence is effected by his 
placing two orders of animated beings where Moses never placed 
them. 
I am, sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Bath, March 10, 1816. F.E 
P,S.—The conjecture thrown out at the close of my former 
letter has no higher pretension than a simple possibility. In 
making it, I was perfectly aware of the objection which Doctor 
P., observes may be drawn from physieal considerations set forth 
(not in the ‘ Systéme de la Nature,” but) in Laplace’s Expo- 
sition du Systéme du Monde. 
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XLIII, Observations on the late excessive cold Weather. By 
Wo. Sxrimsuire, Esq. of Wisbech. ce 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
s. 
Sir, — Ix consequence of the public solicitation of your valua- 
ble correspondent Mr. ‘I’. Forster, as well as for the information 
of the other readers of your useful Magazine, I am induced to 
send the following obsetvations respecting the late intense cold 
as experienced in this part of the kingdom, 3 
roy 
