This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...the renewal of the human race after some great catastrophe, cannot be referred to a period farther back than about 5000, or 6000 years from the present time. Geologists, too, of every description, however different the systems or theories they have adopted, have been constrained, from the evidence of fact, to admit ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...the renewal of the human race after some great catastrophe, cannot be referred to a period farther back than about 5000, or 6000 years from the present time. Geologists, too, of every description, however different the systems or theories they have adopted, have been constrained, from the evidence of fact, to admit this conclusion, " thai every part of the dry land was once covered by the ocean;" thus confirming the scriptural account of that stupendous event, the universal deluge. This even, from its very nature, must have been accompanied.with the most terrible convulsion, both on the exterior surface, and in the interior strata of the globe. Accordingly we find, that traces.of this awful catastrophe exist in every region of the earth. Mr. Parkinson describes the whole island of Great Britain, as having since its completion, " suffered considerable disturbance from some prodigious and mysterious power. By this power all the known strata to the greatest depths that have been explored, have been more or less broken and displaced, and, in some places, have been so lifted, that some of the lowest of them have been raised to the surface; while portions of others, to a very considerable depth and extent, have been entirely carried away." The whole of the Alpine region in Switzerland, and the north of Italy, considered as one mass, shows the most evident marks of dislocation. At the height of 3500 feet above the level of the sea, M. Saussure met with a chasm a hundred feet wide, and so deep that he saw no bottom. All travellers on the Alps have regarded them with horror. They mark the most evidenr convulsions, but show no signs of having been occasioned by attrition. Mr. Townsend, speaking of the Pyrenees, which he personally inspected, says, ...
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