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The discoveries of Geology 



impressions of various plants ; so that in the transition strata a vege- 

 table creation is discovered as well as an animal. 



In the following table we have taken the geological facts from va- 

 rious authorities. The passages quoted, are selected chiefly on ac- 

 count of their brevity. In the quotation from and reference to Gen- 

 esis, the events on which geology can throw no certain light are in 

 italics. 



Table of coincidences between the Order of Events as described in 

 Genesis, and that unfolded by Gological Investigation. 



* One solitary exception is since discovered, in the calcareous slate of Stonesfieid. in the bones 

 of a didelphis, a tribe whose position may be held intermediate between the oviparous and 

 mammiferous races. 



