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with a flood, and as the only natural token of what had happened; 
I had expected to And a reference made to every diluvian heap 
of gravel, and every valley of denudation, as a memorial of that 
wrath which was displayed, while visiting rebellion with death. 
In other words, if the geological creeds of Baron Cuvier and 
Professor Buckland be established, as true in science, then must 
the Book of Genesis be blotted out of the records of inspiration. 
But as I believe in the authority of the Mosaic history, and 
see, in the opinion of Linnagus, a strict conformity therewith, in 
letter and spirit, I may perhaps be asked, How can I reconcile 
the phenomena of nature, as interpreted by these geologists, with 
the view which I have embraced? I have already, in my first 
paper, declared, that “ the works and the words of God must 
give consistent indications of his government, provided they be 
interpreted truly.'” It has been announced, that the Mosaic ac- 
count is in perfect harmony with the discoveries of modern science, 
though we have pointed out & palpable disagreement Perhaps 
a similar difference may exist between these supposed discoveries 
of modern science and the phenomena of nature. Our attention 
will now be directed to the determination of this important point, 
involved in the second question we proposed to discuss. As now 
to be examined, it is one exclusively of a scientific character, in 
which all our appeals must be made to the facts established by 
observation or experiment. 
II. Does the character of any of the members of the “ Modern 
Strata ,” demonstrate the occurrence of a Universal Flood as , 
exclusively , the agent in their formation ? 
The progress of truth, in this branch of the inquiry, must neces- 
sarily be correlative with our knowledge of the “ modern strata,” 
and the causes which have operated in their production. Whe- 
ther a sufficient degree of knowledge has been acquired, or suf- 
ficient attention been bestowed on the subject by British geo- 
logists, I leave to the determination of the unprejudiced. 
Enough, in my opinion, seems to have been secured to enable 
us to solve the question under consideration. 
Various conjectures have been offered by different geologists, 
respecting the origin of the waters of the deluge. Some are dis- 
posed to consider the waters of the earth as sufficient, if once set 
