38 
The discoveries of Geology 
impressions of various plants; so that in the transition strata a vege- 
table creation is discovered as well as an animal. 
In the following table we have taken the geological facts from va- 
rious au ities. 
count of their brevity. 
passages quoted, are selected chiefly on ac- 
In the quotation from and reference to Gen- 
esis, the events on which geology can throw no certain light are in 
s. 
Table of coincidences between the Order of Events as described in 
_ Genesis, and that unfolded by Gological Investigation. 
Discovered by Geology. | 
fn Genesis. 
r Gen. 1, 1,2. In Ba beginning 
created the and the 
rth. And the earth was with- 
out form and — and darkness} 1 
was upon the face of a deep; 
‘ Gehan ved up- 
on the face of the wal 
5. Creation of light. 
bak Se sie fia 
rs. ti Appeneenenof the 
land. 
It is impossible to deny, that the waters of ole oe have 
capo 34 _ for a long ti pase covered those mi: 
whic Ww constitute oi ur highest moun: nntains 
did not 
Earth, Pag 
and, 
further, that these waters, d a 
fot te Tog ga sect, 
11, 12, 13. Creation of shooting 
Plants, _ of seed-bearing herbs} 3 
‘Many observ 
most perfect developed class, the Dico- 
rye srasty appear in the period of the peice td 
sti wand the iret traces;of thent Cate 
the oldest strata ot oor oe Pl Be formation ; Rede they 
uninterrupted] uccessive form: 
“% — ‘the Ancient Fiore Of thel 
or James oma pagent 
14 to 19. Sun, moon i stars 
made to be for eth sos and for 
and for 
20. Creation ofthe inhabitants 
biesicaraidid 
coun ot riviak a 
rs 
21. The creation of great rep- 
tiles. 
rhs 
Sine s 
laine not to acknowlege as a certain tru 
truth, 
24, 25. Creation of the mam-| 
alia, 
7 
It will be im 
the number, the largeness, and od Pick! of the aioe 
— ited the seas or _ 
crete 
“oe of “namin co oe = ge — only 
wise 
e up to the nd above the coarse — 
a "which, is above the chalk."—Cuvier’s Thane ann 
26, 27. Creation of man. 
an remains among extraneous fossils. — Cuvier’ 
alrnon, sect. 32. : 
But found covered with mud in caves of Bi 
—Journal. 
Noah 4200 years ago. 
Genesis VII. The flood = 
9} 
back than five or six thousand 
ry, 32, 33, 34, 35. and Bucklan 
i ago,— Cuvier’s Theo- 
’s Relig. Diluv. 
ld, in the bones 
a dtp a — whose position may be held intermediate between the oviparous and 
