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Almost 
the ground, senseless, perveless, and helpless ; 
GEOLOOICAL CHAN0E3 OF ■THE 
every one, on looking over, 
earth- 
involuntarily * 
inevitably be precipitated, and dashed to atoms, 
not for measures of caution and security, that have i|i< 
been deemed indispensable to a safe indulgeiic® 
curiosity of the visitor or spectator. Every one, 
ceeding to the spot, whence it is usual to gaze ‘ ^ 
wonderful deep, has, in his imagination, a limit 
graduated by a reference to distances witli whicb 
oOP|5 
ovef 
has been familiar. But in a moment, eternity. 
is presented to his astounded senses ; and he is ' . „.i * 
overwhelmed : his whole system is no longer 
his volition or his reason, and he falls like a mas® 
crtiedieut only to die common laws of mere madv 
then revives, and, in wild delirium, suiweys a 
for a while, he is unable to define by description 
tation. 
GEOLOGICAL CHANGES OF THE 
I# 
There are more tilings in lieaven and earth 
Tliaii are dreamt of in mir pliilosopliy. 
SiiAitt'® j 
nO 
The variety of fossil substances, many of 
productions, which are found in mountains retnj-,,fs',| 
the sea, i— ..-i-. .r -. i,-.- siii i„’f 
are undeniable proofs that the earth's 
undergone considerable clianges, some of whicl'^^ 1^ 
an alteration of climate not easily to be esplainn 
remains of animals inhabiting hot countries, and 
productions of hot climates, which are frequently ^ 
high northeni latitudes, lead to a suspicion that ^ 
axis w-as at a very remote period dilierently 
what it is at present. The tropics now extend t'vv’* t i“i 
it J 
degrees and a half on each side the equator ; fi'l,- 
were extended to forty-five degrees, then the arc 
and the tropics would coincide, and thence 
inconceivable variations in the productions and P 
of the earth. All this would form an amusing 
to a person possessed ol a terrestrial globe, "'ho 
a tltread round it to represent the uopics at 
grees of elevation 
