[82] "Dust" in our version, literally lumps or "nuggets."
[83] The vulgar and incorrect idea that the vulture "scents the carrion from afar," so often reproduced by later poets, has no place in the Bible poetry. It is the bird's keen eye that enables him to find his prey.
[84] Lyell's "Principles of Geology."
[85] Stanford, London, 1875.
[86] In further explanation of these general geological changes, see "The Story of the Earth and Man," by the author.
[87] "Tenera herba, sine semine saltem conspicuo."—Rosenmüller, "Scholia."
[88] Haughton, Address to the Geological Society, Dublin.
[89] See McDonald, "Creation and the Fall." Professor Guyot, I believe, deserves the credit of having first mentioned, on the American side of the Atlantic, the doctrine respecting the introduction of plants advocated in this chapter.
[90] "Eozoic" of this work. Professor Dana in the latest edition of his Manual uses the name "Archaean."
[91] This may refer to an eclipse, but from the character of the preceding verses more probably to the obscurity of a tempest. It is remarkable that eclipses, which so much strike the minds of men and affect them with superstitious awe, are not distinctly mentioned in the Old Testament, though referred to in the prophetical parts of the New Testament.