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RELICS

FROM THE WRECK OF A FORMER WORLD;

OR,

SPLINTERS GATHERED ON THE SHORES

OF

A TURBULENT PLANET.

PROVING,

TO A DEMONSTRATION, THE VAST ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH; AND, THE
EXISTENCE OF ANIMAL LIFE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC SHAPES,

AND THE MOST ELEGANT COLORS: RIVALING THOSE

OF THE RAINBOW,-MILLIONS OF YEARS BE

FORE THE APPEARANCE OF MAN.

WITH AN APPENDIX

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

ON THE SCENERY IN A PATCH OF INFINITE SPACE.
ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST WONDERFUL BODIES, AND SUBSTANCES,
THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, IN ALL AGES OF
THE WORLD WITH AN ANALYSIS

OF EACH.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

"It will not do for Christians to deny the conclusion, on the ground that the Mosaic narrative teaches that the Earth is only about six thousand years old. This is attribut ing to Moses a sentiment which his language does not justify."—W. Lindsay Alexander D. D., F. S. A. S.

NEW YORK:

W. H. GRAHAM, TRIBUNE BUILDINGS, H. LONG &
BROTHER, 32 ANN- STREET, AND BURGESS,
STRINGER & Co., 222 BROADWAY.

1847.