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Mr. Darby believing, without doubt, that it could 

 not, as before, have been formed by the Mississippi, 

 has suggested the following idea, "May not this re- 

 volution have drawn its causes from a change in the 

 earth's centre ? May not the time have existed, when 

 the Canadian lakes discharged the whole or part of 

 their column down the Mississippi ? 



" How very small difference in the inclination of the 

 plane, from lake Michigan, towards the Mexican gulf, 

 would produce the most extraordinary changes ?"* &c. 



Having already introduced the subject of a change 

 of the earth's axis, in speaking of the cause of the ge- 

 neral deluge, or Noatick flood, it is unnecessary and 

 inexpedient to offer any remarks or opinions, on that 

 head, in the present instance. I shall therefore proceed 

 to observe, that having endeavoured to prove, that the 

 great alluvial region on oar Atlantic coast, and of 

 which a large portion of the delta of the Mississippi is 

 unquestionably a part, has been formed by the opera- 

 tion of currents flowing, probably, from the Arctic sea 

 or Noth Pole, across the continent of America, 1 trust 

 I may again appeal to the same source, for the cause in 

 part of the phenomena in question, without being sus- 

 pected of too great a fondness for innovation, or an un* 

 due partiality for a favourite theory. 



The numerous facts that have been adduced in favour 

 of such a revolution, and a change in the configuration 



* Darby's Louisiana, pa^e 42. 



