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SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



Jb ig. yy. .Professor James; D. Dana. 



With what fidelity has geology deciphered the records 

 of this wonderful history ! We marvel that so many se 

 crets of the silent ages have been found out. And yet we 

 run over their chronicles as if but the annals of the last year. 

 How immense a field for the imagination to sweep over ! 

 What amazing intervals of time to contemplate ! what 

 gigantic operations to trace ! And yet we behold from 

 the beginning the action of the same physical forces as are 



