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The equatorial current is not continuous as a submarine flow. The United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey, has prepared a map, showing an "inner cold 

 wall" from outside New York to Cedar Keys, by which term is meant the equato- 

 rial current, flowing from the Arctic Sea. It is not surprising, then, that the 

 warm waters of the Gulf sweep the bed of the ocean for many hundred and 

 perhaps thousands of square miles. It consequently happens that its bed, as well 

 as the Gulf Stream itself, has a distinct fauna and flora of its own, perhaps the 

 most marvelous in any area of the globe. The dredging and trawl nets of the 

 United States Fish Commission, in this area, have brought up literal thousands 

 of new species of fishes and the lowest forms of animal life. There seems to be 

 no end to the species discovered here. Every year a new section of ocean bed 

 is explored, and a new series of animal life brought forth. The warm waters of 

 the Gulf Stream bringing a constant supply of food and soil from the Gulf and 

 the far interior of the west and northwest United States, makes this a rich field for 

 the support of life. Here, too, have been discovered the breeding and hiding 

 places of large schools of new or long-known edible fishes. One acre of land on 

 the ocean bed touched by the Gulf Stream, is worth a hundred acres of the rich- 

 est prairie land. The products of this area find their way to Chicago, and may 

 be had at the table in a line of eating houses and dining cars as far west as Salt 

 Lake City. Thus the soil which is lost to the West by the depredations of the 

 Mississippi, is returning its par value with interest to the same West by aiding in 

 the support of food fishes far out in the Atlantic. — The Saturday Evening Herald^ 

 Chicago. 



GEOLOGY- 



GEOLOGY IN GENESIS. 



PROF. S. H. TROWBRIDGE. 



The first chapter of Genesis — not to mention other portions of scripture — is 

 full of geological information ; and in its phraseology and general scope is not to 

 be dispensed with in a successful study of the Earth's ancient history. It affords 

 trustworthy data on many points of interest, concerning which, all other sources 

 of information give us nothing but conjecture. 



Geologists require a vast amount of time for a physical explanation of all 

 the changes which have taken place in the history of our Earth. And the Bible 

 gives it: For the " beginning " mentioned in the first verse of Genesis, may 

 have been milHons of years before the work of the six Mosaic days commenced. 

 But in the beginning, whenever this was, "God created the Heaven and the 

 Earth ; " not as they now appear to us, but the matter out of which the Heaven 



