doubt on so sacred a subject, and that the more 

 accurately nature is investigated, the more clearly 

 will she be found to bear her testimony in favour 

 of revelation. 



That the waters of a universal deluge were 

 actually employed in effecting the changes which 

 took place at the epoch alluded to, the disco- 

 veries of geology also abundantly attest. No- 

 thing can be more distinctly marked than the 

 action of a sudden and violent eruption of water 

 on the face of the existing earth. It is seen on 

 every part of the globe in the deposits, called by 

 geologists diluvium, which every where occur in 

 the table lands and gentle acclivities, and which, 

 by their position, are readily distinguishable from 

 the alluvium deposited by rivers or lakes. In 

 proof of this it may be sufficient to refer to the 

 testimony of Dr. Buckland, who says, " In the 

 whole course of my geological travels from 

 Cornwall to Caithness, from Calais to the Car- 

 pathians, in Ireland or in Italy, I have scarcely 

 ever gone a mile, without finding a perpetual 

 succession of deposits of gravel, sand, or loam, 

 in situations which cannot be referred to the 

 action of modern torrents, rivers or lakes, or 

 any other existing causes. And with respect to 

 the still more striking diluvial phenomenon of 

 drifted masses of rocks, the greater part of the 

 northern hemisphere, from Moscow to the Missis- 

 sipi is described by various geological travellers, 

 as strewed on its hills as well as valleys, with 

 blocks of granite, and other rocks of enormous 



