t|., t T - i f . y • S ' n 11,6 scr iptures 
X den,c ‘ the existence of concentric 
spheres and open poles; or the yieI<li„o- 
' the spheres to such shape as a periodf- 
wl, an annual, or occasional variation in 
Uie velocity of rotation might produce • or 
"ei| '"f succession of strata of various 
W i r “"“ 1,1 the c ™st of the 
for m’-fr C ' as ,. to " n P'y tllat 't had existed 
disrm • n& 0 r y ears ’ sti11 ’ 1 conceive, the 
rotnn!l-r eS r°n P^* 090 !' 1 '}’. (of which the 
tuudity ot the earth is one,) would not 
lash with the records of holy writ; for 
tue earth being made by an Mm:glity 
mandate m a single day,'it was made as 
the increase ot the loaves and fishes were, 
hv a miracle; and had the loaves and 
nsoes been chemically analyzed, they 
would doubtless have been found to con¬ 
tain lime in the bones o( the fish and glu¬ 
ten in the bread, the same as if they had 
been produced progressively; therefore 
a planet made by a miracle, should be 
precisely such as those may be which 
were made by the slowest possible pro¬ 
cess. 
The imperfection of that part of the 
strictures which treats of the sun within 
the tropics and of navigators having been 
beyond lat. 82°, needs no other answer 
than a reference to my former numbers, 
particularly that of the 19th August, 1819, 
headed “Light between the spheres.” 
JNO. CLEVES SYMMES. 
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