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the earth is CQmposed are the leases of the book, none of which 
are without instruction; and in their whole we see a display of suc- 
cessive creations, and that too of countless ages, rivalling in won- 
der, and drawing as much upon our imagination, as do the fictions 
of the east ypon their youthful reader. These successive creations 
doubtless were preparative to each other, and of the present, the 
final or Mosaic one — being in this that man for the first time ap° 
pears; and in his creation, as we have good reason to believe, the 
successive creations find their ultimate limit. 
LARDNER VANUXEM, State Geologist, 
JAMES EIGHTS, Assistant, 
