Geology and Revelation / or, the Ancient History of the Earth, considered in the geological facts and revealed religion.

by Gerald Molloy

[49] Jukes, Manual of Geology, p. 127.

[50] See his Lecture On a Piece of Chalk, delivered during the Meeting of the British Association at Norwich, 1868.

[51] Lyell, Elements of Geology, p. 318.

[52] Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. ii., chap. xlix.; Mantell, Wonders of Geology, Lecture vi.; Jukes, Manual of Geology, pp. 130-3.

[53] Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, by the Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D.; Summer, p. 168.

[54] Ps. xcix. 3.

[55] Kotzebue’s Voyages, 1815-18, vol. iii., pp. 331-33.

[56] Wonders of Geology, p. 648.

[57] Organic Remains of a Former World, vol. ii., p. 16.

[58] Carbonic acid gas contains two equivalents of oxygen to one of carbon, the chemical expression for the compound being CO₂; carburetted hydrogen, which is the gas we employ in illuminating our streets and houses, contains four equivalents of hydrogen to two of carbon, and is chemically expressed by the symbols C₂H₄; water is composed of one equivalent of oxygen, and one of hydrogen, the symbolic form being HO.