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GEOLOGY. 
the height of 400 feet along the eastern coast, whilst the western 
side appears to he sinking in an equal ratio. 
I have only to express my regret that I have not yet been able 
to obtain the highly interesting geological data which are to he 
got by examining the eastern side of this island, and which would 
no doubt give me a clearer insight into the wonderful operations 
of nature, and would have enabled me to lay before you a more 
complete exhibition of facts. 
And so the work of the Creator never ceases, and whilst we see 
before our eyes men, animals, and plants appear, so are new con¬ 
tinents and islands continually formed, although to the human 
eye in an almost imperceptible manner; and as we see things 
living on our planet, and existing from it, become buried in it, 
their bodies resolved into the elements from which they were 
built up and sustained, so the eternal sea forms the gi’eat sepul¬ 
chre for continents and islands, which have served their time, and 
want repose. 
