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huge 30 feet long and 90 tons weight Mocks of stone when 
first placed in the walls of the chamber. And I submit that 
records of the domestic life of ancient Egyptians, as also of 
the prediluvian inhabitants of the American continent, and 
their progress in other arts than revealed by sculptures, and 
paintings on their edifices, is to be found by exhumation of 
entombed relics, as done in the case of Herculaneum and 
Pompeii, from beneath the loam covering, or diluvium 
deposited by the Flood. The depth of necessary excavation 
cannot be great, not probably beneath the level of the lower 
part of the Sphinx. Already minor explorations have 
revealed various relics, pottery, &c, at depths of from thirty 
to sixty feet. But the upward pressure of water-springs 
throughout the Valley of the Nile renders the task there 
difficult. 
What would be the result to our present race of man in 
his highest state of civilization, progress in arts and inven- 
tions, if prophetic allusions to "the end being with a flood 
and desolations," which "they that escape shall flee from 
to the mountains," wero to turn out to be literal truths, 
and some sudden catastrophic influence caused loss of equi- 
librium to our globe I Natural law would impel her to 
seek to regain it after the convulsing primary shock, and she 
might " reel to and fro," or slightly oscillate, sending her 
ocean waters in vast tidal waves over continents. Still there 
might be timo to flee to the mountain tops, and a small 
remnant of our race might be saved thereon, sheltering in 
caves and rugged hollows.* Would they, in their hasty 
flight, take up with them proofs of their progress in art, and 
supplies of useful implements ? No ! it would be a rush for 
<loai- life only.t For days, and perhaps weeks, these unfor- 
tunates, like shipwrecked mariners, would wander over the 
tops of the mountains, now become islands, foraging for 
food. Carcases of drowned animals would be drifted ashore 
by the swelling flood — some, borne from distant points of 
the earth's contour, are as unknown to them as animals 
existing now on the Antarctic continent (with a race of man 
perhaps thus saved, as in many people's traditions) are 
undreamed of by us — or, if ever heard of, as former denizens 
of some spots from whence their carcases have drifted, or 
have been deposited, till disclosed by geology, are deemed 
by pakeontological science as only of ancient type, and now 
Wholly extinct — still, want of other food renders their flesh 
acceptable, and happy those who can make fires to cook such 
* Revelations vi. 15. 
t Matthew xxiv. 17-24. 
