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the plications of the strata first noticed by Professor Rogers, 
late professor of natural history in Glasgow, who had formerly 
been one of the surveyors, and published in the report of 
the geology between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. This 
Gulf Stream has been described by the late physicist of 
Cambridge, Mr. Hopkins, as likely at one age of the earth 
to have flowed north into the Arctic Ocean. We may there- 
fore speculate that it was not restricted to its present size till 
by the crushing back of the continent above referred to. 
After all things were prepared, and its important iiving 
cargo stowed away in the manner we are so 'familiar with, “ in 
the second month, and seventeenth day of the month, the 
same day were all the fountains of the great deep (fcohu, 
vohu) broken up and the windows of heaven were opened,” 
and rain poured on the earth for forty days and forty nights, 
during which the waters increased so greatly as to float it 
above the surface of the earth on which it was built. The 
Diluvian waters rose above all the eminences and high hills 
of the Atlantic region : thus the great rivers described as 
flowing from the garden of Eden may have been situated upon 
this peninsula during the early age of its formation, when the 
diameter of the spheroid, and the axis on which it revolved, 
were different from what now obtains. 
This may be inferred palaeontologically from the reptilian 
fossil remains of gigantic size, which are stored up in the lias 
formation, and found largely distributed through the south- 
east of England, and almost restricted within a short distance 
of that locality. 
To return from this digression. We may suppose that the 
ark floated upon the surface of the ocean by way either of the 
Straits of Gibraltar, or on the sea of the Sahara, the now 
sandy desert of north Africa, but now closed by the upheaval 
of the volcanic isles of the Canaries and Cape de Verde, &c. ; 
or it may even have been carried over the Landes (the narrow 
neck of land along the base of the Pyrenees) into the Medi- 
terranean, and so eastward to the locality described in the 
record as in Armenia, near the peak of Mount Ararat, 16,000 
feet high ; and till very lately unsealed by man. 
In order to reduce the Diluvian flood, God caused a 
powerful wind to pass over the earth, and the waters 
assuaged. The fountains of the deep were stopped (possibly 
by the submergence of the isle from expansion of the Earth- 
crust), the rain from heaven being also restrained. 
There seems no necessity for detailing minutely the several 
events with which you are all acquainted from your Bibles, 
but I mean to suggest a different mode of interpretation from 
