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Now, how came it that the sharp edges at the 

 base, during the transport of those blocks, should 

 have escaped abrasion, notwithstanding that the 

 parent rock was six miles distant ? Was it because 

 those blocks of granite had been conveyed from the 

 rock in situ upon an iceberg or a raft of ice, with 

 all their angular parts entire, to the place which 

 they now occupy, and there deposited ? and as the 

 flat base of each massive fragment rested upon the 

 level surface of the subjacent rock, the sharp edges 

 at the base were thus protected from the possibility 

 of abrasion? The upper portions of the blocks, 

 however, having been exposed to the action of the 

 waves, sand and gravel were dashed upon them, by 

 the attrition of which the angular parts were, in 

 process of time, rounded off. 



NOTES ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 



98. Was it by physical and other appliances, on 

 the part of the Creator, that the works of creation 

 were evolved ? Of the three Hebrew r words " Nil 

 create, TWy make, iy form or fashion ; though each 

 of these has its shade of distinction, yet the best 

 critics understand them as so nearly synonymous 



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