The theories of the Gulf Stream;
Icebergs and the Ice belt, their formation;
Glaciers, how formed;
Equable condition of the Mediterranean Sea;
And the Law of Attraction of Gravitation,
Or that the Sun is a mass of heat.
II.
FIRE AND WATER.
The two elements of fire and water are evidently the source of all created things.
It is the purpose in this plain and homely dissertation to review and criticise some theories set forth by scientists, and to introduce some new ones more acceptable to the mind of the writer, and to be submitted to observing minds to decide upon their merit.
It is a generally believed assertion that the Earth has been a molten mass at or near its origin, except from the rather doubtful story of creation related in first chapter of Genesis, where it appears that the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. When or how they were created, the story fails to relate. But, admitting the waters to prevail to such an extent as to incline God’s spirit for a voyage thereon, would make the idea of a molten Earth rather improbable.