THE

GLOBE PREPARED FOR MAN;

A GUIDE TO GEOLOGY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE OBSERVING EYE, OR LETTERS ON NATURAL HISTORY,'
"THE PASSOVER FEASTS," ETC.

**Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the Earth."-PSALM cii., 25.

"He hath founded it upon the Seas, and established it upon the Floods."-PSALM Xxiv., 2.
"The dry land of the world is little else than the bottom of seas and lakes."-DE LA BACHE

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PREFACE.

THE discoveries made in Natural History by the study of GEOLOGY, excited a few years ago much alarm in the public mind, lest they should lead to statements at variance with the revealed account of the Creation.

But as the theories of imaginative minds have been made to yield to solid information, collected by the observation of excellent and learned men, this alarm has subsided. And the more the science has been pursued, upon the principle of a close investigation of facts, the more completely has it been found to harmonize with the Bible statements of the character and works of God; whilst at the same time, Geologists are free to own that it explains the cause of features in the outward works of Creation, unnoticed by the Word of Revelation, which dwells chiefly upon the moral and spiritual condition of man as he stands in connection with his Maker.

Geology "teems with endless examples of economy, order, and design." Its study is calculated to confirm our assurance in the existence of one supreme Creator-to exalt our convictions of the immensity of His wisdom, and of His all sustaining Providence. It excites attention to the objects around us, and

exercises every faculty of the mind-reason, memory, imagina tion; and "though we cannot put our fossils to the question, it is something to be so aroused as to be able to put questions to ourselves."

The following sketch of this interesting study was originally prepared in the form of notes, for the instruction of a learner, whilst examining a small cabinet of fossils. In collecting information for the purpose the most esteemed authors were read, and wherever their ideas or words suited the object of the compiler they were unsparingly adopted; in consequence of which, the first scanty remarks were soon amplified into the work now prepared for the use of young people.

The chief authors consulted have been Lyell, Mantell, Buckland, Hugh Miller, Bakewell, De la Beche, Richardson, and Ansted.