CATACLYSMS. 



the earth, as claimed by geologists. Also tending to 

 prove that the inner convulsion did not sink forests be- 

 neath the present ocean beds. Also tending to prove 

 that the inner forces did not bury forests thousands of 

 feet beneath the surface of the earth. 



But instead tending to prove that the impact 

 from without first sunk the territorial outlines beneath 

 the present surface of the waves by driving that por- 

 tion of the earth deeper by the greater part of the for- 

 eign body jolting at that particular portion of the earth. 

 Driving that portion inward causing the waters to 

 change to the lower levels, and le'aving the former beds 

 of the ocean raised up into mountains above the waters, 

 thereby leaving the former ocean beds as mountain 

 tops. And thus accounting for the fish and animal re- 

 mains in the strata, which were deposited there by the 

 washing sands while the portions were ocean beds. 



Also accounting for the forests that rest beneath 

 the w r aves at the present time, which were driven down 

 by the impact. Portions which were thoroughly melted 

 by the extreme heat in the regions \vere deprived of ani- 

 mal remains, and belong to the class of earthly forma- 

 tion now known as the portion of the earth belonging 

 to the azoic age. 



Portions where the jolt was not sufficient to melt, 

 but broke and twisted the surface, caused the flexures in 

 the earth's crust. All tending to show that the earth 

 \vas jolted by some heavy body from without, causing 

 the parts of broken surface to fall in all shapes, edge- 

 wise and otherwise. 



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