24 THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. 



its arrival at the goal of truth is as certain as the progress of 

 time ; and the period is near at hand, when the great deductions of 

 Geology, like those of Astronomy, will be viewed by the intelligent 

 and instructed as in perfect harmony with the Scriptures, and as 

 affording new proofs of the wisdom, and goodness, and omnipotence 

 of the Eternal Being, who, " in the beginning created the heavens 

 and the earth" 



Yale College, 

 Newhaven, Connecticut. 



