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waters under the earth," and the sun over-roasting, 

 finally cracked and burst it; the broken fragments of 

 the ruined world fell downwards into the abyss, and the 

 subterranean waters rushed out in a mighty flood to 

 remain as our present seas and oceans, from which the 

 broken crust protrudes as continents and islands. 



As might naturally be anticipated, the bursting out 



FIG. 90. "Such was the Earth when first formed." 

 1. The Crust of the Earth. 2. The Waters under 

 the Earth. 3. The interior parts of the Earth. 



of the abyss corresponds to the Noachian deluge, which 

 we thus perceive to have been prof o under in its origin 

 and wider-reaching in its effects than we might previously 

 have supposed. This, for distinction, we may call Bur- 

 nett's deluge (Fig. 91) ; of his geology we may say that it 

 is cosmological, since it endeavours to trace the history 

 of the earth backwards to its origin in chaos ; that it 



