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ransmitted, and among the rest, the theory of the earth’s rotation ; and 
Anaxagoras says that at first the apparent revolution of the starry sphere 
was without the inclination which it subsequently received, and that that 
inclination which it now has was given to it afterwards. That is a most 
cbstinct statement of a change of axis, Now I am prepared to demonstrate 
that that change of axis must have produced a universal deluge, and the 
g aciai drift, and what, in a sounder state of geology, was called the diluvial 
formation. The present glacial theory was unknown in Buckland’s day ■ and 
that we should be expected, on the assumed evidence of a new theory, to set 
asule the records forwarded to us from a remote antiquity seems really too 
much. This glacial theory has been pressed to a degree which it would be 
almost impossible to credit, if it were not written, and if we could not 
refer to chapter and page. It is supposed by Mr. Geikie, who has published 
a learned work on the great ice age, that in Connecticut-and he quotes 
Professor Dana, a professor of geology and natural history— the thickness of 
he ice overspreading the continent measured from 6,000 to 8 000 feet 
Mr. Geikie introduces a picture of the great Antarctic ice-barrier from 
Sir James Ross’s Antarctic expedition, and gives that as an illustration of 
he state of Scotland in the glacial age ; but that great ice-bamer was limited 
to 1,000 feet thick, while in Connecticut the thickness is estimated, as I 
have said, at from 6,000 to 8,000 feet ; in Scotland, from 2,500 to 3,000 
teet ; and in Switzerland, at 3,000 feet. Are we to understand that those 
w o believe m a universal deluge are to be considered credulous 
whde those who receive these monstrous hypotheses, one of which is 
that boulders from the Alps were borne to the Jura upon a great 
continuous glacier which filled that whole wide and deep valley of 
Switzerland, are to be deemed not credulous but scientific ? With regard to 
some ot the particulars m this paper, I rejoice much that Professor Challis 
has come forward to support the Scriptural record : but that internal heat 
which lie does not account for, would be accounted for by a change of axis’ 
We find from the calculations of Professor Hansteen that the north magnetic 
pole is about 18i degrees from the geographical pole. The inclination of the 
moons orbit to the ecliptic is 5 degrees, or thereabouts ; while the plane of 
the eart h s equator inclines to the ecliptic about 23i degrees. If you deduct 
the 5 degrees of the moon’s inclination from the 2H degrees of the earth’s 
inclination, the remainder, 18J degrees, is the distance of the magnetic from 
the geographical pole— the old axis from the new ; and you may thus come 
to some indication of a time when the moon’s orbit was in agreement with 
the plane of the earth’s equator. Upon that theory which represents the 
moon to have been originally an outlying portion of an extended attenuated 
condition of the earth itself, it is reasonable to suppose that she did originally 
move in the plane of the earth’s equator, or very near it ; and if so, the 
TT T 1 f ? lt U Wlt m r in heaven ” 0f the fact that the earth’s axis has 
shifted 181 degrees. The facts of terrestrial magnetism, from which that 
great astronomer, Dr. Halley, deduced the conclusion that there is a nucleus 
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