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was being formed, and other planes under it, the entire plane 

 B, A, C, was covered with water ; or, what is the same thing, 

 the sea was at one time raised above sand hills, however high. 



3. Before the plane B, A, C [PI. XI, fig. 22] was formed, 

 the planes F, G, I [PI. XI, fig. 23] had the same position 

 which they now hold; or, what is the same thing, before the 

 strata of the sand hills were ^ formed, deep valleys existed in the 

 same places. 



4. At one time the inclined plane / [PI. XI, fig. 23] ap- 

 peared in the same plane with the horizontal planes F and G, 

 and either the exposed sides of the planes / and G were contin- 

 uous, or another solid existed there, supporting the exposed 

 sides when the planes were being formed ; or, what is the same 

 thing, where valleys are seen to-day between the plane sum- 

 mits of the highest mountains, there was at one time a single 

 continuous plane under which huge caverns had been formed 

 before the downfall of the upper strata. 



5. When the plane F, G [PI. XI, figures 24 and 25] was 

 being formed, a watery fluid lay upon it ; or, what is the same 

 thing, the plane summits of the highest mountains were at one 

 time covered with water. 



Six distinct aspects of Tuscany^ we therefore recognize, 

 p. 69. two when it was fluid, two when level and dry, two when it was 

 broken; and as I prove this fact concerning Tuscany by infer- 

 ence from many places examined by me, so do I affirm it with 

 reference to the entire earth, from the descriptions of different 

 places contributed by different writers. But in order that no 

 one may be alarmed by the novelty of my view, in a few words 

 I shall set forth the agreement of Nature with Scripture by 

 reviewing the chief difficulties which can be urged regarding 

 the different aspects of the earth. 



In regard to the first aspect of the earth Scripture and 

 Nature agree in this, that all things were covered with water'; 

 how and when this aspect began, and how long it lasted, 

 Nature says not. Scripture relates. That there was a watery 



1 The alluvial deposits of the valley. 



2 This summary takes up the figures in inverse order, figures 25, 24, etc. 

 ^ See Genesis, i. 1-7. 



