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sepulchre, which is reserved for man and his works. 

 But not so is it with the wonders which we are survey- 

 ing. No lapse of the world's ages, though they might 

 be prolonged to a million years, would serve to efface, 

 or to remove the awful vestiges of that creating 

 and destroying hand, which here present themselves. 

 Standing upon these indelible monuments of omnipo- 

 tent agency, we seem to catch the murmurs of that 

 swelling ocean which gleams in the distant horizon, and 

 tells us of a period when it rolled its mighty surges 

 over these inland summits. We are thus affectingly 

 reminded that the same dread power which turned back 

 their overflowings, though not, however, until they had 

 left behind them sufficient evidence of his desolating 

 wrath, is the Being whom man still continues to pro- 

 voke by his obstinacy and rebellion ; the Being " who 

 weigheth the mountains in scales and the hills in a 

 balance," and before whose presence, when he cometh 

 a second time to judge the world in righteousness, the 

 solid rocks shall flow down, and be '* molten under him, 

 as wax before the fire." (Micahi.4.) 



Here then is a school in which the sceptic and the 

 unbeliever might learn much wisdom. In the midst of 

 the rugged scenery of the Cornish Tors, many a whole- 



