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surface. The correspondence between the works of the second 

 and fifth days is obvious, but becomes still more marked by 

 the addition of a few facts which Moses, in his brief survey, 

 left out, but which are supplied by geological science. The 

 second day, according to Moses, was characterized by the de- 

 velopment of more marked distinctions between earth, water, 

 and atmosphere, expressed by the creation of the " firma- 

 ment," or the super-terrestrial expanse ; while geology shows 

 that the fifth day was characterized by the development of a 

 second degree of similar distinctions, whereby alternations of 

 climates and seasons, cold and heat, rains, winds, etc., super- 

 vened. Moreover, the fifth day, according to the biblical 

 account, was characterized by the development of rudimental 

 land and aerial animals ; while, according to geology, the 

 second day, after the incipient creation of light, was further oc- 

 cupied by the creation of the rudimental marine animals, or 

 the radiata, articulata, mollusca, and fishes of the so-called 

 Transition Formation. The creation of these, Moses passes 

 over in silence, the reason of which may be conceived to con- 

 sist in their comparative non-importance, and in the fact that 

 in that unintellectual age, they were not, as facts in nature, 

 sufficiently conspicuous to excite general inquiry as to their 

 origin. 



Further correspondences are also developed, by the aid of 

 geological science, between the third and sixth days, but Con- 

 cerning these I need not particularize. 



If the reader will now take the trouble to compare the mem- 

 bers of this series of creations as described by Moses, with the 

 members of any seven-fold series of creations or operations 

 which we have heretofore described, or which we may describe 

 hereafter, he will find that each member is to its series what 

 the same member of any other natural seven-fold series is to the 



