RELICS 



tf 



FROM THE WRECK OF A FORMER WORLD; 



OR, 



SPLINTERS GATHERED ON THE SHORES 



or 



A TURBULENT PLANET. 



PROVING, 



TO A DEMONSTRATION, THE VAST ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH J AND, TH 



EXISTENCE OF ANIMAL LIFE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC SHAPES, 



AND THE MOST ELEGANT COLORS: RIVALING THOSE 

 OF THE RAINBOW, MILLIONS OF YEARS BE- 

 FORE THE APPEARANCE OF MAN. 



WITH AN APPENDIX 



OM THE SCENERY IN A PATCH OF INFINITE SPACE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, 



ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST WONDERFUL BODIES, AND SUBSTANCES, 



THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, IN ALL AGES OF 



THE WORLD : WITH Atf ANALYSIS 



OF EACH. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. 



" It will not do for Christians to deny the conclusion, on the ground that the. Mosaic 

 narrative teaches that the Earth is only about six thousand years old. This is attribut 

 ing to Moses a sentiment which his language does not justify." W. Lindsay Alexander 

 D. >., F. S. A. S. 



NEW YORK: 



W. H. GRAHAM, TRTBUNE BUILDINGS, H. LONG & 



BROTHER, 32 ANN- STREET, AND BURGESS, 



STRINGER & Co., 222 BROADWAY. 



1847. 



