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CHAPTER IV.
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EVIDENCES OF THE INTERCHANGE OF EARTH AND SEA, UNIVERSAL,
AND ABUNDANT IN ALL PARTS OF THE PRESENT EARTH
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CHAPTER V.
TWO REVOLUTIONS ONLY IN THE SPHERICAL SURFACE OF THE
EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENTS OF THE MOSAICAL
RECORD-1ST, IN FORMING THE PRIMITIVE SEA-BED AND EXPOSING
THE FIRST EARTH-2DLY, IN DRAINING THE SEA INTO A NEW BED,
TO EXPOSE THE PRESENT EARTH.-NUMEROUS AND INDEFINITE
REVOLUTIONS IN THAT SPHERICAL SURFACE, ACCORDING TO THE
UNDIRECTED AND GRATUITOUS SPECULATIONS OF THE MINERAL
GEOLOGY. (See Note [IV.] p. 371.)
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CHAPTER VI.
OF THE TRANSPORT OF ANIMAL BODIES PERTAINING TO THE IN-
GULFED AND PERISHED EARTH, FROM THE TROPICS NORTHWARD
-OF THE INSTRUMENT OR VEHICLE OF THEIR TRANSPORT-OF
THEIR IMBEDMENT IN THE CALCAREOUS AND OTHER SOILS OF
THE PRIMITIVE SEA, THEN FLUID AND MOVEABLE OF THE
DRAINAGE AND DESICCATION OF THOSE SOILS, AND THEIR FINAL
INDURATION INTO SECONDARY ROCKS OF THE CLEAVING OF
THOSE ROCKS IN DESICCATION, AND THE DISCLOSURE OF THEIR
CONTENTS. (See SUPPLEMENT to this Chapter, p. 283.)
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CHAPTER VII.
OF FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS-THEIR EXTREME RARITY-RECENTLY
DISCOVERED AT DURFORT IN EAST LANGUEDOC, AND AT KOSRITZ
IN UPPER SAXONY. (See Note [V.] p. 394.)
CHAPTER VIII.
OF EXTINCT ANIMAL GENERA
CHAPTER IX.
OF THE MIXTURE AND ALTERNATION OF TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE
ANIMAL REMAINS, IN THE MARINE SOILS CONSTITUTING THE PRE-
SENT EARTH
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124
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145
CHAPTER X.
OF THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE BEDS OF RIVERS
CHAPTER XI.
OF THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE SUBSTANCE OF COAL-MARINE
VEGETATION, DISSOLVED AND TRANSMUTED IN ITS ELEMENTS,
AND MINERALISED IN ITS NATIVE BED UNDER VAST ACCUMULA-
TIONS OF THE DESICCATED AND CONSOLIDATED SOILS OF THE
PRIMITIVE SEA?
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CHAPTER XII.
OF THE MYSTERIOUS DOMESTICITY OF ONE ENTIRE ANIMAL RACE,
THE CAMEL OF ARABIA-CAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL YET UNNO-
TICED PHENOMENON
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CHAPTER XIII.
OF THE EXERCISE OF CREATIVE POWER ON THE NEW OR PRESENT,
AS ON THE PRIMITIVE EARTH: -TWO UNIVERSAL EXERCISES
ONLY OF THAT POWER ON OUR GLOBE INFERRIBLE FROM THE
MOSAICAL RECORD.-AN INDEFINITE PLURALITY OF CREATIVE
OPERATIONS REQUIRED BY THE SPECULATIONS OF THE MINERAL
GEOLOGY
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CHAPTER XIV.
OF THE FOUR RIVERS OF EDEN, POPULARLY ASSIGNED TO ASSYRIA IN
CONTRADICTION OF THE INSPIRED TESTIMONIES, WHICH UNITE
TO CERTIFY THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST EARTH:-
THAT APPARENT CONTRADICTION OF THE SACRED HISTORIAN EXA-
MINED, AND ITS CAUSE REMOVED
GENERAL CONCLUSION, FROM THE THREE PRECEDING PARTS OF
THE COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE
SUPPLEMENT TO PART III. CHAP. VI. p. 123, ON CAVES IN LIMESTONE-
FORMATIONS, AT KIRKDALE AND ELSEWHERE, CONTAINING FOSSIL
ANIMAL EXUVIE
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NOTES.
IV. ON THE NUMEROUS REVOLUTIONS OF M. CUVIER
371
V. ON THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS, AT DUR-
FORT AND KOSRITZ
394
VI. ON THE EASTERN ORIGINATION OF MANKIND
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