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tlio first (Icgroo of 8cor])io, in south (kicliiiatioii, as staled above. This vvnuhl 
oceur about tlic jicrind when tlio autedihivians would I'cel tJic cd'ects of tlio 
Ihiods, and be compclk'd to retire from tlie soutlicru to the nortiieni hemi- 
sphere ; tiiis wouhl also seem to agree with tlie escape of Noaii in iiis ari(. 
Tiiis occurrence woidd iiappen, according (o our tiuiory, aboiit four thousand 
and ciglity-onc years ago, or two thousand two iiunch'ed and hfty-ouc years 
before Cin'ist, tlic ])eriod of the deluge. 
"This dis(!repaney between our calcuhition and the scriptural chronology of 
two thousand three hundred and forty-eight years, maybe readily accounted 
for, as we know not the date when the latter chronology was written, whether 
at the beginning, middle, or cud of the deluge, an iuundatnig 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 How, 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 ])eriod be busily select- 
ing dry spots in the northern lands whereon to fix their habitations. * * * 
The perihelion would now continue to descend tli rough 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 woidd be left dry, as we now find it to be from experience. Tlic 
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 
iirst 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 seeond 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 
yeai'S; 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 1S30, 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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