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and enormous power constantly flowing through 

 the ocean ; and when we think of the tremendous 

 power of running water to cut through the solid 

 rock, as exemplified in the case of Niagara, and 

 many other rivers, what would be the result of the 

 action of currents in the sea, compared with which 

 Magara is but a tiny rivulet 1 Ocean currents, 

 then, flow on a bed of still water, that protects the 

 bottom of the sea from forces which, by calculation, 

 we know would long ago have torn up the founda- 

 tions of the deep, and would probably have destroyed 

 the whole economy of nature, had not this beautiful 

 arrangement been provided by the all-wise Creator. 



