12 
fifths of that country were below the level of the sea 1^000 
years ago. In making these computations on the probable 
ages of the existing lands, it must be borne in mind that the 
computations refer strictly to the dry lands or continents, and 
not to the earth as a body. The globe, with all its elements, 
might have existed from eternity. The ocean and the lands 
emerging from the Antarctic Pole, merge again into the Arctic 
Pole, and thus circulate from pole to pole through the medium 
of the earth's axis. This question is beyond, the reach of 
demonstrable science ; but as regards the existing, dry lands, 
we are able to determine the extreme limits of their probable 
ages almost to a mathematical certainty. . _ o 
A new land emerging from the deep in latitude 50 S., 
moving at the present slow rate of 20 " per annum northward, 
would arrive at the Arctic Circle in less than 22,000 years. 
Hence, had Greenland been emerged in that parallel, and had 
since been slowly shifted from thence, it could only be 22,000 
years old. But as far as the fossil contents of that country 
are concerned, Greenland might have emerged from the sea, 
like many other northern lands, in latitudes corresponding to 
Spain and Portugal, and if so, it might not be above 5,000 
years old. Again, we must not forget the miracle of the Flood. 
It is highly probable that the Flood was brought about by 
means of the established terrestrial physical operations. The 
movement of the ocean northward must have been gieatly 
intensified , and thereby, from the same natural causes, the 
action of the lands in the same direction, must have increased, 
and thus, during their immersion by the . ocean, have been 
carried en masse many degrees northward, with the carcasses of 
the animals then destroyed, leaving a new land for Noah and 
his live stock free from the remains of the former animals, to 
replenish the world with organic life for future generations. 
Besides this possible extra movement northward during the 
Flood, we have to reflect also on the great intensity of the 
action of terrestrial operations in the days of the Creation. 
When everything was created and made to appear perfect and 
in a state of maturity, as quick as the word of command, f * Let 
it be ; and it was so ” — time was not required. Although the 
Creation was spread and divided over six days as a type, of 
certain ordinances which were to be established for the guid- 
ance of man, so many days could not have been required by 
our Maker. The great intensity of action which of necessity 
must have been going on during the days and nights of the 
Creation, has not been sufficiently considered . by those who 
have attempted to compare geological formations with the 
Mosaic records. Greater results must have then been P r Q" 
