S60 THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. 



which is at present of such a character that the great 

 continental zones are rising, whilst the great oceanic 



basins sink The varied surface of the 



earth is simply due to a series of movements, which 

 have taken an incalculable time to produce existing 



results Let us carefully remember that 



our measures, adapted to our own compreliension and 

 to the length of our existence, are borrovred from the 

 dimensions and motions of this point in the universe 

 which forms our habitation, and can never be le- 

 garded, whether as respects space or time, as in any 

 sense proportionate to the dimensions and the 

 duration of the \n orks of the Creator !" 



