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SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



.big. yii. Professor James D. D 



With what fidelity has geology deciphered the records 

 of this wonderful history ! We marvel that so many se- 

 crets of the silent ages have been found out. And yet we 

 run over their chronicles as if but the annals of the last year. 

 How immense a field for the imagination to sweep over ! 

 What amazing intervals of time to contemplate ! what 

 gigantic operations to trace ! And yet we behold from 

 the beginning the action of the same physical forces as are 



