GEOLOGICAL. 



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assailed by scientific would-be giants, who will only believe 

 just what they can see and understand. One has very 

 recently combated the truth of the Noachian deluge, and 

 another, whose weapon of defence is made of better metal, 

 has defended it, proving that nearly every nation has, 

 more or less, some account of that catastrophe: what 

 now does Nature, when called in as a witness, say to it ? 



This section of the Himalaya mountains shows a solid 

 mass of corals: these persevering little creatures built 

 up their dwellings from the bottom of the deep seas 

 how, then, came they on the Himalayan heights, far 

 above the level of the nearest sea ? 



The same question may 

 be asked of the fossils com- 

 posing the great chalk 

 strata in our own and other 

 lands, one ounce weight cf 

 which, you have heard, is 

 said to contain four millions 

 of animal remains ; that is, 

 the average weight, when 

 fossilized, would be the four- 

 millionth part of an ounce 

 each! These minute but 

 beautiful forms, after pass- 

 ing their ancient lives in pre-Adamite seas, and being 

 transformed into solid bodies by the infiltration of minute 

 particles of lime, were upheaved by subterranean forces, 

 making such masses as we have all along our south 

 coast ; and by subterranean heat have again been trans- 

 formed into masses that have afforded material for the 

 most magnificent of temples and those unequalled sculp- 

 tures which have come to us from the ruins of Greece 

 and Rome, in white marble. 



Section of chalk, with fossils in situ. 



