revelations of geology. 
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is characterized by a distinct and different 
set of the remains of former life. 
We forbear to lengthen this sketch by 
details which may be easily found elsewhere^ 
and conclude it with the eloquent words of 
one of the masters of the science. 
By the discoveries of a new science (the 
very name of which has been but a few 
years engrafted on our language), we learn 
that the manifestations of God’s power on 
the earth have not been limited to the few 
thousand years of man’s existence. The ge¬ 
ologist tells us, by the clearest interpretation 
of the phenomena which his labours have 
brought to light, that our globe has been 
subject to vast physical revolutions. He 
counts his time not by celestial cycles, but 
by an index he has found in the solid frame- 
work of the globe itself. He sees a long 
succession of monuments each of which may 
have required a thousand ages for its elab¬ 
oration. He arranges them in chronolog¬ 
ical order; observes on them the marks 
of skill and wisdom, and finds within them 
the tombs of the ancient inhabitants of the 
earth. He finds strange and unlooked-for 
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