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altered, and thus that beautiful system of ter- 

 restrial economy which regulates the amount 

 and kind of work to be performed by every one 

 of the myriads of physical agencies that have 

 been employed, under the guidance of Supreme 

 Intelligence since the beginning, in bringing 

 this world to the state in which we actually 

 find it, would have been marred long ago." 1 



** So He ordained, whose way is in the sea, 

 His path amid great waters, and His steps 

 Unknown ; whose judgments are a mighty deep, 

 Where plummet of archangel's intellect 

 Could never yet find soundings, but from age , 

 To age let down, drawn up, then thrown again 

 With lengthened line, and added weight, still fails, 

 And still the cry in Heaven is, " the depth !" 



8. If it is passing strange that the little eye 

 of the Microscope should thus pierce to scenes 

 to which the eye of man never penetrated, and 

 where even the light of the sun never shone, 

 what shall we say if this Instrument can trace 

 the very steps of the wind, and so unfold to us 

 some of those great laws which guide the course 

 of this proverbially fickle element, as certainly 



1 Maury's Physical Geography of the Sen, pp. 358, 350. 



