!l(4 geological changes of the EAETK 
“ As I approached a sequestered mansion-house, " 
otlrer buildings, which together bear the name of 
•TABLES, I crossed a corner of the meadow li 
angle formed by a rude inlet of the Thames, \ 
running smoothly towards the sea, at the 
The tide unites here with the 
miles an hour. 
current, and, ranning a few miles above this place, „cy , 
twice a day the finely-reduced edge of that ? fs/ 1 
balance- w'heel, or oscillating fluid-pendulum, whic j 
the earth’s centrifugal power, and varies the f \ 
me iTcuin a maiv* . 
forces. In viewing the beautiful process of ISa'i 
sented by a majestic river, we cease to 
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wonder 
craft has often succeeded in teaching nations to . jfi 
rivers as 
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of divine origin, and as proximate living jj (j ^ 
of Omnipotenoe. Ignorance, whose constant 
look only to the last term of every series of 
which charges Impiety on all who venture to asct 
term higher, and Atheism 
several terms, {though every 
on all who dare to^ 
series implies a. cO'h 
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would easily be persuaded by a cratty priestbooo 
der a beneficent river as a tangible branch of the ’ 
are but a portion of the rains and snows which, j’to jj, 
But we now know that the waters which flow do"’” 
near its source, are returning to the ocean, 
again and re perform the same circle of V 
rains, and rivers. What a process of fertilizarion)^'' f 
rains, anu nveis. vr a XII. ixi tii.x.-..- _ ,[ , 
still more luxuriant would have been this 
had not levelled the trees, atid carried away , 
What a place of shelter would thus , 
* acc””y. 
A'egetation. 
afforded to 
tribes of amphibiae, whose 
remains often surprise geologists, though oecessEOo^f, 
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quent on the fall of crops of vegetation on -ylin .■ 
undisturbed banks of rivers. Happily, in 
coal-pits, or mineralized forests, have supplied ^ ' . iii j: 
our living woods ; or man, regardless of the ih” iijjt|,; j 
the parts to the perfection of every natural , 
here, as in other long-peopled countries, ignf” jjje ® 4 ' 
thwarted the course of Nature by cutting 
ber, which, acting on the electricity of tlie 
their density, and causes them to fall in fertiliz'”l> 
Such has been the fate of all the countries fam”” y 
quity, Persia, Syria, Arabia, parts of Turkey* 
