40 
the theologian reviewers of the Book of Enoch hold that 
the book could not have been written in latitude 9°, but 
that one of its authors must have resided farther north, a 
distance of not less than 36° of latitude, or in 4n to 4!I J 
north latitude, where the longest days an* from fifteen and a 
quarter to sixteen hours.* But if a point south of the 
Pyramids, now in north latitude 9°, was, when the Book of 
Enoch was written (accepting its authenticity as the work of 
Enoch), prior to the Noachian Flood, in north latitude 45 , 
the position of the Pyramids then must have been in or 
about the latitude of Archangel, a position of great astro- 
nomical importance as a site for observations of the increas- 
ing tilt of the globe on the plane of the ecliptic, and com- 
putations of the period when its progressing change must 
necessitate a physical catastrophe, as the result of an 
inevitable loss of equilibrium and overturn. The climate also 
ot (it; north would be one conducive to energy in labour far 
in excess of that of semi-tropical Egypt of the present time. 
l!ut the disclosures of geology lead to the belief that prior 
to the Noachian Hood, Great Britain was in a climate of 
glacial severity, while our southern coast of Australia was in 
one of tropical characteristics, which would be the relative co- 
incidences of change of the latitude of the Pyramids from lat. 
30' N. to lat. (!(> ' N. ; and that such changes have recurred in 
the past antiquity of our earth is amply unfolded by geology. 
Sir R. 1. Murchison remarked that "the commence- 
ment of the first glacial period in the history of the Alps 
was synchronous with an enormous dislocation and up- 
heaval of that chain, and coincident with a vast change 
in the level of materials constituting the then existing lands, 
ami their debris, which had previously lain beneath the 
waters. . . . Such dislocation was of the same date as 
that which submerged a pre-existing northern continent, and 
brought it under the influence of a glacial sea." Cuvier 
observed that, "if there be anything settled in geology, 
it is this — -That the surface of our globe has been sub- 
jected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of 
which cannot be carried much farther back than five or six 
thousand years; that that revolution broke down and made 
to disappear the countries which had been before inhabited 
by men, and the species of animals with which we are now 
best acquainted ; that, on the other hand, it laid dry the 
bottom of the immediately preceding sea, and formed 
* " Enoch Restitutus." By Rev. Edwd. Murray. London, 18:30. 
See page Uti and ante on the comparison of the chronology of Enoeli 
with the Hebrew computations. 
