CONTENTS. 
Dedication . . 
Introduction 
CHAPTER I. 
Assumptions in Mr. Brough Smyth's Report of the Progress 
of Geological Survey in Victoria, of the uniform action of 
trivial causes of denudation, with crumpling of strata — 
Development of a Force, or motive power in Nature, 
necessarily productive of such phenomena, as a sequence 
of its operation — On Polar ice accumulation, and its 
effect upon the Earth's equilibrium, as that of a spheroid 
equably poised in space — Hypothesis as to open unfrozen 
polar seas, and natural production of rock salt, and its 
occurrence as an evidence of former glacial conditions at 
its site — Some prominent oppositions of authorities in 
science to exercise of common sense in deducing opinions ; 
and " oppositions of science, falsely so-called," to the 
statements of Scripture . . . . . . . . 9-22 
CHAPTER II. 
Theory of the Earth's central heat, causing upheavals, 
combated — Results of a loss of equilibrium by the Earth 
as to change in position of sites of defined latitude and 
longitude — Theories of the Precession of the Equinoxes, 
and of the Oceanic Tides, and a new interpretation of 
these phenomena — A recession of the sea from certain 
coasts, not a silting up of their harbours — Hypothesis as 
to the date of erection of the Great Pyramid, and as to 
the intention of the stone-coffer in the King's Chamber — 
New ideas as to age of the " cave-men" and animals- 
Hypothesis as to ancient drifts, and deposits therefrom — 
Questions of deep importance to navigation, in securing 
the safety of all mariners at sea . . . , . , 23-45 
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