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arth, in which there is a more elaborate view 

 of what is beneath the surface of our globe. 

 And, when we come to dig into or examine it 

 (as man does for his own instruction and ad- 

 vantage, in a variety of ways), we see that it is 

 made up of different kinds of matter, subject to 

 a very few powers ; and all disposed in this 

 vStrange and wonderful way, which gives to man 

 a history and such a history as to what 

 there is in those veins, in those rocks, the ores, 

 the water springs, the atmosphere around, and 

 all varieties of material substances, held toge- 

 ther by means of forces in one great mass, 

 8000 miles in diameter, that the mind is over- 

 whelmed in contemplation of the wonderful 

 history related by these strata (some of which 

 are fine and thin like sheets of paper), all 

 formed in succession by the forces of which I 

 have spoken. 



I now shall try to help your attention to what 

 I may say by directing, to-day, our thoughts to 

 one kind of power. You see what I mean by 

 the term matter any of these things that I 

 can lay hold of with the hand, or in a bag (for 

 I may take hold of the air by enclosing it in a 

 they are all portions of matter with 



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