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the first degree of Scorpio, in south declination, as stated above. This would 

 occur about the period when the antediluvians would feel the effects of the 

 floods, and be compelled to retire from the southern to the northern hemi- 

 sphere ; this would also seem to agree with the escape of Noah in his ark. 

 This occurrence would happen, according to our theor^^, about four thousand 

 and eighty-one years ago, or two thousand two hundred and fifty-one years 

 before Christ, the period of the deluge. 



" This discrepancy between our calculation and the scriptural chronology of 

 two thousand three hundred and forty-eight years, may be readily accounted 

 for, as we know not the date when the latter chronology was MTitten, whether 

 at the beginning, middle, or end of the deluge, an inundating period of up- 

 wards of three thousand years. 



"After this period the inundating power of the ocean would gradually cease 

 towards the southern hemisphere, but would still slowly flow, for several thou- 

 sand years ; in the northern hemisphere, at the same time, a gradual retiring of 

 the waters would take place, and a greater comparative tranquility would 

 ensue in both hemispheres, after three thousand four hundred and ninety-eight 

 years of commotion. The antediluvians would at this period be busily select- 

 ing dry spots in the northern lands whereon to fix their habitations. * * * 

 The perihelion would now continue to descend through Scorpio, Saggitarius, 

 to the, first degree of Capricorn, at extreme south declination, and the low 

 lands would then be completely submerged in the southern, while the northern 

 hemisphere would be left dry, as we now find it to be from experience. The 

 ocean will continue slowly to retire from the low lands of the northern, and 

 will as slowly advance in the southern hemisphere ; which process will probably 

 continue for about two thousand nine hundred years more. 



" The perihelion has now passed from the first degree of Scorpio to the first 

 degree of Capricorn, in three thousand four hundred and ninety-eight years —a 

 period of submergence of lands in the southern hemisphere, but of a retreating 

 ocean from the lands of the northern hemisphere ; the perihelion having alto- 

 gether descended through the three signs, from the first degree of Libra to the 

 first degree of Capricorn, in five thousand two hundred and forty-six years, has 

 thus completed the second quarter of ninety degrees, or half a revolution of 

 the ecliptic of one hundred and eighty degrees, from the first degree of Cancer 

 to the first degree of Capricorn, in ten thousand four hundred and ninety-two- 

 years. 



" This period would be arrived at between nine thousand two hundred and 

 forty-six years before Christ, and one thousand two hundred and forty-seven 

 years of the Christian era (or relatively to 1830), five hundred and eighty-three 

 years ago. 



" The third quarter commences at the first degree of Capricorn, from which 

 the perihelion will pass on to the tenth degree first minute fifth second of the 

 same sign in five hundred and eighty-three years, which brings it to the year 1830 

 of our era ; the longitude of the perihelion being then one hundred degrees 

 one minute five seconds. The perihelion will now continue passing through the 

 remainder of the nineteenth degree fifty-eighth minute fifty-fifth second of Capri- 

 corn, to accomplish which it will require one thousand one hundred and sixty-six 

 years; it will move on, after this, through the sign Aquarius, to the first degree of 

 Pisces, at eleven degrees forty-five minutes of south declination, in two thou- 

 sand nine hundred and fifteen years, when the ocean will entirely cease flowing 

 to the south, and begin to encroach on the northern hemisphere ; and after 

 having passed through Pisces, it will have traversed the whole four southern 

 signs in six thousand nine hundred and ninety-six years, of which, up to the 

 year 1830, four thousand and eighty-one years have already expired, so that, 

 dating from 1830, two thousand nine hundred and fifteen years more must 



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