THE
MOSAIC HISTORY
OF THE
CREATION OF THE WORLD

ILLUSTRATED BY DISCOVERIES AND EXPERIMENTS DERIVED FROM THE PRESENT ENLIGHTENED STATE OF SCIENCE; WITH REFLECTIONS, INTENDED TO PROMOTE VITAL AND PRACTICAL RELIGION.

BY THOMAS WOOD, A. M.


REVISED AND IMPROVED

BY THE REV. J. P. DURBIN, A. M.

Professor of Languages, Augusta College, Kentucky.


“Every man has a particular train of thought into which his mind falls, when at leisure, from the impressions and ideas which occasionally excite it; and if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is surely that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent author.”—Bacon.

FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.