[52] "Footprints of the Creator."
[53] This idea occurs in Lord Bacon's "Confession of Faith," and De Luc also maintains that the Creator's Sabbath must have been of long continuance.
[54] See the quotation from Job, supra.
[55] This is not strictly correct, as many animals, especially of the lower tribes, extend back to the early tertiary periods, long before the creation of man; a fact which of itself is irreconcilable with the Mosaic narrative on the theory of literal or ordinary days.
[56] Since this was written, the bones of many Batrachian reptiles have been found in the Carboniferous, both in Europe and America. No reptilian remains have yet been found in the Devonian rocks.
[57] Biblical Repository, 1856. See also an excellent paper by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, Bibliotheca Sacra, 1867.
[58] Rhode, quoted by McDonald, "Creation and the Fall," p. 62; Eusebius, Chron. Arm.
[59] Suidas, Lexicon—"Tyrrenia."
[60] Diodorus Siculus, bk. i. Prichard, Egyptian Mythology.
[61] "Asiatic Researches."