A semblance strange to Power intelligent,
And of Design not wholly worn away.
And I own
Some shadowy intimations haunt me here,
That in these shows a chronicle survives
Of purposes akin to those of man,
Measuring through all degrees, until the scale
Of time and conscious nature disappear,
Lost in unsearchable eternity.”—Wordsworth.
We will now proceed to the diagram to which we have made allusion, and which represents an ideal section of the earth’s crust as the various formations are there found arranged. (Diagram II.)