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coming down to a lower level ? I only mention these things to show that 
we are not, on this ground, at liberty altogether to reject the facts, and many 
of the deductions that Mr. Hopkins has made from them. There are some 
other points for instance, Mr. Warington has asked, with some degree of 
triumph, how we are to account for a still greater degree o f | am ® 
Land, if glaciers have cut their way through the ravines of the Leton, 
and marked their course in these ravines 1 In the first place, I might y 
that considerable doubt has been felt as to these glacial markings m many 
places ; but, even supposing we admit them, we have one portion of Mr. 
Hopkins’s paper bearing the test of history, for Mr. Warington very properly 
says we should have history to test these things. Well, history lias given us 
the change of the climate of Greenland. (Hear, hear.) Is it Green-land 
now 1 Has it any pretension to the name of Greenland ? Would any 
voyager now call it Greenland, or would he not call it White-land an in- 
bound land ? But there are other matters to be taken into considera ion 
with regard to this. I am one of those who do believe m a universal deluge ; 
and a universal deluge could not have taken place without a very consider- 
able change of the whole earth’s surface, and without leaving very consider- 
able marks on the surface. And the reason, I think, why the popular 
theorists in geology of the present day do not find the same marks of the 
deluge that a Cuvier could find, is because they look only for superficia 
marks, instead of looking for great and gigantic marks. .(Hear, hear.) 1 
have heard of another theory of deluges. There is the theory of Adhammer , 
and, though I am not going so far as Adhammer does— namely, to a succes- 
sion of deluges, one after another- certain I am of this, that Adhammer, 
both with the acumen of a good geologist, and of a sound physical and 
mathematical observer, has shown the manner in which a deluge could have 
taken place— a deluge which would have swept the whole of the newly 
formed earth with gigantic masses of ice. I know no other theory which 
will account, in the slightest degree, for “the glacial period hypothesis 
(Hear, hear.) I know no theory which has ever been propounded to account 
for the glacial period, which can at all compete with Adhammer s theory 1 
won’t say of deluges, but of one deluge ; and, perhaps, the time may come, 
when science advances far enough, when we shall have patiently accumulated 
a sufficient number of facts to account for all the paradoxes which we do 
meet with in the phenomena which geology has given us. We have not only 
to account for the palm flourishing in this country, and for its having once 
enjoyed a tropical climate, but we have to account for mountains of ice 
floating over the country from one end to the other, and I believe tha,, 
without extended periods of millions upon millions of years, Mr. Hopkins 
has, at any rate, sketched out for us a sufficient number of facts to cause us 
to suspend our judgment before we accept these very great and lengthened 
periods of time to account for things which may, perchance, (we will only 
say “ may, perchance,”) be included within the limit of some six or seven 
thousand years, instead of millions and billions of ages. 
Mr. W AEINGTON— Might I add two words in support of my view, that the 
Dead Sea stands in the same place as in the days of Abraham 1 I should 
