PREFACE, 



UNKNOWN to the world of Science we present ourselves as advo- 

 cates of the vast undertaking which is, we expect, to revolutionize 

 the whole theory of Natural Science taught and believed in at the 

 present day, and to inaugurate a new system, based upon a natural 

 law, the evidences of which we have discovered, and which we hereby 

 show to be of necessity universal, and therefore capable of explaining 

 all natural phenomena. 



This system is not the development of a day, but has been in 

 progress, in various ways, for many years, more particularly since the 

 hidden meaning of MAGNETISM was discovered and applied by us. 



The nucleus of the present work appeared some time ago in a 

 weekly periodical, in the form of Essays on Natural Science ; and 

 the reception given them, along with the importance and admitted 

 necessity for such a work, has induced us to issue the present volume. 



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I observations in 



chemistry, telegraphy and marine diving ; in an extensive experience 

 in coal and gold mines: and also while voyaging and travelling along 

 the Gulf Stream, the Calma of the Equator, the coasts of Brazil, 

 California and Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Bay of Fundy, 

 the Hot Sulphur Baths of Salt Lake, the Great Geysers of California, 

 and the mangroves of the Isthmus of Panama. 



To our readers generally, let us say, that we desire (o be judged 



