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A New Cosmogony. 
[April, 
A number of phenomena, both of organic geography an? 
of palaeontology, seem Regions, '"and extended 
fested on our globe in the A.ctic g > . wou j d 
gradually southwards, or, as | « 1 ' » one very 
t" a poUr 
region 0 s, a w 0 hafe e ve'r a migM have been the temperature , on 
account of the months’-long nights, but it we conceive 
presfnTorbit of" Venus? and elln beyon" 
Sielong “poUr“ ghtfoVtte" [[eTmmde.' of things could 
have had no existence. , 111 mir readers 
• There is another still more important. A , 
will be aware of the indiscreet raid i which certain phy_ 
Sicists have made upon geology ^4 hioio^, asaeit^^ ^ 
if these sciences could not do with a sno , s 
five hundred million years to account for the past cl 
in the Earth and its organic inmates, so muc 
tor ^K d pS°« never felt greatly alarmed at these 
calculations. It has been said that the Sun cannot have 
existed longer than a certain term of yeais, an th t 
Earth must necesssarily be youngei. If M. y XP 
thesis takes the place of that of La Place, -and £ certainly 
accounts better for recognised phenomena, .the P 
which the above-mentioned calculations weie 
en pShaps S when r 'astronomers and physicists have settled 
bArC them to 
lay down the law for biologists. 
