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proves the omnipotence of the design. It brings into view a 

 world little looked into or thought of, owing to the obscurity 

 with which it was surrounded. It develops the early, the sub- 

 lime, the successive works of the great Creator, which before 

 were all supposed to be drowned and scattered about by the 

 mighty burstings of a universal deluge. In other words, the 

 contemplation of these stupendous operations is the true phi- 

 losophy of the science of geology. If therefore the attention 

 lately paid to the study of fossil conchology has been so highly 

 instrumental in clearing up the many doubts respecting the 

 different sedimentary formations ; if the works of Baron Cuvier 

 and others, founded on the early observations of Werner, have 

 afforded us so many interesting proofs of successive creations, 

 from those of the early inhabitants of the deep up to the more 

 complicated structure of the quadruped ; — may we not expect 

 equal pleasure and instruction from an application to the 

 study of these ancient vegetable remains, which when once 

 properly examined, will facilitate our knowledge of the forms, 

 characters and qualities peculiar to each epoch, and of the 

 degree of temperature and humidity which must have existed 

 during each successive period. 



December 6, 1829. 



VIII. Compendious Tables for co?iverti72g Time into Space, and 

 Space ifito Time. By A Correspondent. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. 

 Gentlemen, 



T^HE value of compendious and correct tables is well known 

 -*■ to all practical men, and as among astronomers none are 

 more frequently required than those for the conversion of 

 time into space, and vice versa, I send you two sets for the 

 purpose, the arrangement of which seems preferable to any 

 I have seen ; the first may be fixed up in an Observatory ; 

 the latter consigned to a traveller's pocket. 



I have the honour to be, 



Yours, &c. 



