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Oic Karth and Heavens. In Psal. xc, vorse 4, Mosbs says, 

 " For a tliousand years in tliy sij^'lit, liko yesterday when it is 

 past or a watch in the nij^'ht, — or vice verna. Antlciyatittg 

 cardlling, the apnsth^ IVter says, second Epistle, chap, iii., 8, 

 " (.)ne ihiy with the Lord as a thou>'and years, and a thoiisand 

 yours as one day." We ini<,dit snhstitute % thousand tliousaiid 

 (1,000,000) or any nnniher of years that the facts of Science 

 may rociuire. The sanctions of the DecalogHo recjuiro definite 

 measurement a week — seven days. 



22. ^^ resume our search for Nummnlites, goinf? east^ 

 "ward to India. In Seindo we find a range of mountains with 

 Nummnlites on their summits. At the close of the Scinde 

 var, 1847, Cnpt. Vicary was sent hy Sir Charles Najjier to 

 make a geologicil reconnaissance of the country. In this he 

 made the interesting discovery that Nummulitic rocks consti- 

 tuted the summit ridge of the Ilala range of ruountains. This 

 exalted position is about 1300 feet above the sea level. His 

 investigations were communicated to the Geological Society 

 by Sir Roderick I. Murchison. Also Persia, in the Western 

 Himalayas (the region of Cashmere) at a height of 16,500 

 feet (Dana). Some of -the nummulitic limestones of India 

 Diake beautiful ornaments, A friend. Dr. Niven, formerly in 

 the East India Company's service, gave me a beautiful speci- 

 men. It is a brownish marble ; the nummnlites are cut ia 

 -every direction showiug different phases of nummulitic struc- 

 ture. This is said to have come from Scinde. 



Richthof^:n found the nummulitic formation in the Philip- 

 pine Islands, Java and Luzon, and also in Japan. The seas o£, 

 the luimmu'itic i)eriod thus extended from Java to the south 

 of r'i<;land. How and when these nummulites were brought 

 into the elevated subacriai positions, where we now find them, 

 will be a subject of enquiry in No. 27. We now revert to 

 the "Saurians" of No. 14. Tlie Saurians here, that come 

 first in order, are En-alio-saurs (in sea lizards). These have 

 already been noticed in No. 10, when we mentioned the 

 Eosaurus (the dawji lizard) of Prof. Marsh. These monsters 



