Letters on the Physical History of the Earth, Addressed to Professor Blumenbach: Containing Geological and Historical Proofs of the Divine Mission of MosesC.J.G. and F. Rivington, 1831 - 422 pages |
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... waters of the ocean . 66 66 When , " he says , we have studied the continents with attention in all their parts , from their centres to their borders ; from their greatest elevations to their lowest depths ; when we have seen the ...
... waters of the ocean . 66 66 When , " he says , we have studied the continents with attention in all their parts , from their centres to their borders ; from their greatest elevations to their lowest depths ; when we have seen the ...
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... waters have had a constant tendency to level the soil in their course , the process of crumbling down has been continued , rest has succeeded to long convulsions , and vegetation has covered those heaps of ruins now fitted for its ...
... waters have had a constant tendency to level the soil in their course , the process of crumbling down has been continued , rest has succeeded to long convulsions , and vegetation has covered those heaps of ruins now fitted for its ...
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... waters of the ocean , at the time of its retreat , that levelled the bed of the valley , not the waters of the Rhone . Between Martigny and the lake there is no level ground , except what has been produced by the sediments of the Rhone ...
... waters of the ocean , at the time of its retreat , that levelled the bed of the valley , not the waters of the Rhone . Between Martigny and the lake there is no level ground , except what has been produced by the sediments of the Rhone ...
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... desert tracts ; of this my present travels will contain additional examples . " That our continents have successively emerged from the waters of 2 * " the evident In that Letter , §§ 20 , 18 [ SECT . II . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
... desert tracts ; of this my present travels will contain additional examples . " That our continents have successively emerged from the waters of 2 * " the evident In that Letter , §§ 20 , 18 [ SECT . II . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
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... waters into their former basin . In maintaining the fact of an universal deluge which should have reached the summits of the highest mountains of the present continents , he takes no ac- count of the fate of the plants and animals which ...
... waters into their former basin . In maintaining the fact of an universal deluge which should have reached the summits of the highest mountains of the present continents , he takes no ac- count of the fate of the plants and animals which ...
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Page 174 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 190 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; 15 from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 196 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 177 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 174 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 190 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 191 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 91 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; When your fathers tempted me : proved me, and saw my works.
Page 90 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Page 189 - Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.