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time, so stupendous in its kind and appearance, should 

 be produced by the operation or agency of either elec- 

 tricity, or galvanism, separately or combined, seems, 

 to our limited understandings, not only incomprehensi- 

 ble, but both morally and physically impossible. 



But from the vague and imperfect knowledge which 

 we at present possess, of the power and operations of 

 those agents, particularly the former, w r e are incapable 

 of forming an adequate conception of their operations 

 and effects in the great scale of nature. 



Yet from the knowledge we have acquired of the 

 subject, if we reflect upon the surprising results produc- 

 ed by the operations of these two powerful agents, 

 while, under the management and control of man, and 

 which are daily made manifest to our senses, what 

 may we not expect from them, when under the direc- 

 tion and control of Omnipotence. Results the most 

 stupendous and awful have been, but too often, wit- 

 nessed in almost every part of the world, and such as 

 to leave no doubt in the mind of any one, that others 

 still greater and of a more novel kind, may have been 

 the effects of their operations ; such as the formation of 

 whole districts, which have suddenly risen, new form- 

 ed, above the waters of the ocean, embracing in their 

 limits, millions of organised bodies, that have been 

 aught in the solidified mass. 



