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Reply . — In looking at the map, we see Australia, New Zealand, a large 
part of South America, and part of South Africa. These are not an ex- 
tremely small portion of the earth, and they are well fitted for the habitation 
of man. The remarkable facts therefore remain untouched. : — 1. There are 
no historic nations south of the Torrid Zone ; and 2. No terrestrial animals 
are found in the same parts which could not have crossed the Torrid Zone. 
(xvi.) Mr. Warington further ascribes to me the statement that philologers 
have been compelled to divide mankind into three great divisions in order to 
bear out the account of the three sons of Noah. 
Reply . — As I neither said nor believe that they did so, I need only refer 
to the paper for what I did say. 
(xvii.) Mr. Warington speaks of “ my reckless way of treating tzooreem and 
selang ” : and asserts that the word which indicates rocks lying in strata is 
also applied to stones lying in a brook. 
Reply . — The word is never so applied. But if it were, my illustration of 
that beautiful passage would not be affected by it. Mr. Warington does not 
deny that selang means a projecting rock such as Moses could strike, and 
that tzoor is the proper name for a rock lying in strato. Consequently the 
• exposition remains untouched. 
(xviii.) Mr. Warington’s next three questions are somewhat remarkable : — 
1. Do we know as a fact from any scientific discovery that the waters have 
been measured ? Or, 2. That the heavens have been meted out ? Or, 3. That 
the mountains and hills have been weighed ? 
Reply . — With so eminent a scientific gentleman present as the one who 
occupied the chair, I cannot conceive how such a question should have been 
left unanswered. Had Mr. Warington asked for the information before the 
meeting assembled, he would have been saved the trouble of asking the ques- 
tions and have ascertained that these are facts. 
(xix.) I hardly know whether I should give a reply or a rebuke to the 
manner in which Mr. Warington speaks so lightly of inspiration, in his 
observations about a tierce or a quart. Surely when the Omniscient One 
inspired Isaiah to speak of a third part, he meant a third part. 
III. — Dr. Gladstone. 
Dr. Gladstone gives a theory of monosyllabic primeval languages, which I 
have already sufficiently answered. Baseless theories are the bane of true 
science. 
(xx.) On Isaiah xl. 22, “He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” 
Dr. Gladstone observes, that any one looking at the earth knows that it is a 
circle ; but that does not necessarily mean a sphere. 
Reply . — The general charge against the ancients is, that they thought the 
earth to be flat. I do not think it natural to say of a man sitting in a vast 
plain, that he is sitting on the circle of the earth* 
(xxi.) Dr. Gladstone asserts that there are only a few cases where the 
figurative language of Scripture will accord with the modern discoveries of 
