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cumulating centrifugal force of earth, there would be mighty 

 sweeping floods of water over many parts of the earth's 

 surface ; which observation shews to have taken place. 

 Do not the higher elevation of tropical mountains, the lower 

 general character of polar ones, the intermediate heights 

 of those between,, give countenance to the supposition of 

 such effects of such a centrifugal force ? During this period 

 the magnesian limestone, and new red sandstone formations 

 seem to have been deposited. 



The fifth period requires no great extent of illustration. 

 It was pre-eminent for the production of birds, of the in- 

 habitants of the waters, and great whales. This may be 

 supposed to have extended from the beginning of the lias 

 to the end of the chalk formations ; abundant in the re- 

 mains of pterodactyles, saurians, fishes, and other inhabi- 

 tants of the waters. During this the temperature seems 

 to have been still falling. 



The sixth period may be supposed to include the eocene, 

 miocene, and older pliocene deposits. Then, the living 

 creature, the beast of the earth, was created, as seen in the 

 remains of the theria families, mammoth, &c, and, towards 

 the end of it, during the deposition of the newer pliocene, 

 came the present inhabitants of the earth, the creation 

 being concluded in bringing man into being. Man is now 

 under the seventh period, that of rest from creation, in 

 which all shall remain as it is upon the earth, until the 

 promised period of the moral and physical regeneration of 

 the world shall arrive. 



The second hypothesis, upon which the deductions of 

 geology may be reconciled with the account of creation in 

 Scripture, may be very shortly stated. It supposes the 

 whole of the specific creation, as detailed, to have taken 

 place in six literal days, as usually understood, and to form 

 now the presently existing system of animated nature. But, 

 to account for the immense quantity of organic reliques 



