SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



P. 36. Since the publication of my first edition, I have been 

 favoured by the Rev. G. S. Faber with a communication of his 

 opinion respecting the views propounded in my second Chapter, 

 on the Consistency of Geological discoveries with Sacred History, 

 and am much gratified by his permission to state, that he is satis- 

 fied my views upon this subject are consistent with a critical inter- 

 pretation of the Hebrew text of those verses in Genesis, with which 

 they may at first sight appear to be at variance. 



This opinion of Mr. Faber is enhanced in value, by his adopting 

 it to the exclusion of a different opinion published in his Treatise 

 on the Three Dispensations, (1824,) in which itAvas attempted to 

 reconcile Geological Phenomena with the Mosaic History, by 

 supposing each of the demiurgic days to be periods of many thou- 

 sand years. 



Respecting this subject, I have been much surprised to find 

 myself misrepresented, as inclining to the opinion that each day of 

 the creation, recorded, in the Mosaic Narrative, comprehended a 

 space of many thousand years. In my second Chapter (P. 24 et 

 seq.) I have stated that this opinion has been entertained, both by 

 learned Theologians and by Geologists, but is not entirely sup- 

 ported by Geological facts, and have adopted the hypothesis which 

 supposes an undefined amount of time to have elapsed between 

 the creation of the matter of the Universe, and that of the Human 

 race. According to this view, placing the Beginning at an inde^ 



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