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ed in the hand for extracting the juice. This would 
deluge the depressed zone ; but how the elongated or ele- 
vated extremities were inundated, he does not inform us. 
Dr. Woodward supposes, that during the deluge, all the 
most solid bodies, as stones, metals, minerals and fossils, 
were totally dissolved and finally subsided again and 
formed rocks; the water encompassing the whole. After- 
wards an agent, seated within the earth, broke up these 
strata, forming mountains and vallies. continents, islands, 
and seas. He does not tell us what Moses meant by the 
mountains, above which the waters of the deluge rose fif- 
teen cubits. 
- > From the days of the Lydian Xanthus to Granville. 
Penn, great use has been made of earthquakes and sub- 
_terranean fires, in accounting for the phenomena of the 
crust of the globe ; and it has been a favorite opinion, 
entertained even by some of the most respectable natu- 
ralists of the present day, that the sea and land changed 
places during the last diluvial catastrophe that happened 
to the globe. But we think Professor Buckland, as will 
shortly be seen, has forever put this question at rest, and 
proved that no such change has taken place. 
Hutchinson, the founder of a sort of visionary school, 
was the disciple of Woodward ; but he virulently attack- 
ed the hypotheses. of his master. He maintained the 
hurtful opinion that the fundamental principles of natural 
philosophy are to be found in the sacred scriptures; and 
asserted this, and all his other opinions, with disgusting 
dogmatism and self sufficiency. Newton he attempted to 
ridicule, and accuses him of an intention to destroy reli- 
gion. He made, however, some valuable observations 
upon diluvial’action, and promoted geological inquiry, by 
directing his disciples to an examination of the structure of 
the earth. 
Catcott was one of these disciples, and his work on the 
deluge is probably the best of that school. He has treat- 
ed the subject of diluvial currents with great ability. But 
he was seduced by the extravagances of hypothesis, and 
inserted in his work a plate exhibiting “the internal 
structure of the terraqueous globe, from the center to the 
circumference,” and with great seriousness, advises his 
readers to make themselves well acquainted with this, as 
rendering plain and clear the philosophical explanations of 
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