50 THE REALMS OF CELESTIAL SPACE. 



restrial globe influences which by no means cease to 

 play their part in the great economy of Nature when 

 we pass beyond the apparent limits of these regions. 

 When the mountains, for instance, sink down into the 

 plain, their climatic influence still extends over a vast 

 expanse of low-lands. When the rivers mingle with 

 the ocean, they are not lost. And though the Creator 

 has set bounds to the sea which its waves cannot 

 overpass, new rivers rise from its surface and are 

 carried by the winds back to the mountain slopes 

 from whence they took their sources. 



