210 GEOGENY. 



sediment and the last, without counting the period required 

 for the consolidation and first cooling of masses of planetary mat- 

 ter. It was in long series of ages, which are but as instants in 

 eternity, that the earth was fashioned, as we now behold it, by 

 every kind of movement in the soil, by sedimentary deposits of 

 different kinds, and finally prepared as the sojourning place of 

 man, for whom God has disposed everything. 



