The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. With Memorials of the Death and Character of the AuthorGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 502 pages |
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Acrogens ages amid ancient animals anti-geologists appearance argument astronomic bear beds birds bones British carboniferous character Coal Measures Coccosteus creation creatures Cuvier deluge deposits detected developed dicotyledonous Divine division earth Edinburgh elephant Eocene equally evidence exhibited existing extinct fact feet ferns fishes Flood flora formations fossil furnished ganoids geologic geologist globe greatly heavens higher Hugh Miller human period hundred hyænas infinite known labors land least Lepidodendron living Lower Old Red mammals mayhap Miocene molluscs Mosaic Mosaic record Moses natural theologian nature occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organisms original Paleozoic peculiar plants portion present principle race regarded remains remarkable represented reptiles resemblance revelation rocks says scarce scene Scripture seems shells Sigillaria Silurian species specimens surface Tertiary theologians thousand tion trees Triassic true truth Turrettine vegetable vision writer