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of the perihelion point of the earth’s orbit 
which passes from extreme northern 
® Southern declination, vice versa, every ten 
Ce hundred and fifty years ; and Uie maxima 
Um foi^^es in the perihelion occasion the waiers 
'* alternately upon either hemisphere. During 
‘Pli. hundred and fifty years, the sea is there- 
H^''ac(;y '^^nce aU the varieties of marine 
I ''s : . .^tlations of marine remains 
retiring and encroaching in both hemi- 
appearances 
tbiT ’ an i marine remains in particular situa- 
0 ®nQtl *^^’0 succession of layers or strata, one 
1)5*'' absg *f*’. marine and earthy remains. It is evident, 
kj'® Ocqjj[' of those strata, that the periodical changes 
l™^ts ([j '1®“ at least three times ; or, in other words, it 
Cov*' which I now stand has been tlwee 
5.- ■ eretl by the ocean, and three times has afforded 
tor vegetables and animals ! How sublime— 
t affecting is sudi a contemplation ! 
anH**^’ therefore, must be the local arrangements 
V^'ties I ptierile the study of the science miscalled 
tl)^*t’lernli(j’ , How foolish the pride which vaunts itself 
'tid "*'®nta5i costly mausoleums ! How vain 
'I 
ton of large estates, of extensive boundaries, 
a\va^*"* cmoires I- 
1:5 - ttvvay ^tnpires ! — All— all will, in due time, be 
defaced by the unsparing ocean ; and, it 
‘ of e, ® ftail memorials of human science, will ba 
lost Atalautis, and remembered only as 
“"cal dream ["—PkiUipss Walk to Kew. 
fiXTRANKODS FOSSILS. 
°f animals not now in existence, en- 
* *hoi P'^c^crv'ed in solid rocks, present us with 
of tlie great changes which our planet 
the ill former "SfJe^ nrp Iprl fn ?i nprinH 
ages. We are led to a period 
have covered the summits 
tii "'she 
N.' of V mountains, and are irresistibly compelled to 
hio-t, of the ocean 
■ mountains, and 
’* *^J^o conclusions, either tlrat the sea has re- 
t)hB„ . beneath its former level : or tliat some 
N^"%t)g ‘ ''"S_ from beneath, has lifted up the islands 
abv5„ '"'ith all tlieir hills and mountains, from tlie 
above its surface, 
mountains in Derbyshire, 
iIqjj. their present elevation al 
etts, or limestone, mountai 
