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    burning itib , Id whom fire Way be the natural element , ftfi&te Bdnefe&rid toiiscles afe fcbriipd ^ d tifMed e ^^ tfiMt tAl i ^ juices of iiiolteh metals ? Ot others brtde td lite iri the fttafcft regions of SaWrb , havirig their cittutatibii carried bit b ^ fttttd d nidfe subtle tMn the highest rectified fepiritfe raited by fix to

    6 hfe $ iiiitrjr V No one c ^ tainly c&fc liittits Cft&tivfe t % w # . Moreover , such speculatibiis tend to enlarge jth £ mind , by increasihg its range of ideas and feynipatlii ^ W | siiall iibvv > however , follow Dr Bucjdarid in his descriptions of more t ^ ng ihle existences ; we allude to those apparently MtffrstroiiSj but in reality most suitably organized , creature ! , vwiifch are fetibstaatially made known to us through geology .

    u secrets of Nature that are revealed to us by the history 6 f fossil orgamc remains , f 6 rm perhaps the most striking results at ^ Mch We arrive Sfrom the study ot geology . It must appear Mmdsl iiicfeidiibte jfco those who have not minutely attended to natural pheliomena , ihti & nMcrosc ' opic examinalion of a mass of rude lifeless limestoiii should ollih disclose the curious fact that large proportions of its sttfost&ftce h&ve ' once formed parts of living bodies . It is surprising to consider th&t the faatts of our houies are sometimes composed of little else than comminiited

    shells , that were once the domicile of other animals , at the bottom of ancietit seas and lakes . ***** Many extensive plains akd massive mountains form , as it were , the great charnel houses of preceding generations , in which the petrified exuviae of extinct races of animals and vegetables are piled into stupendous monuments of tne operations of life and death during almost immeasurable periods of past time . * At the spectacle ; * says Ciivier , ' so imposing , so terrible as that Of the wr ^ ck of animal lire , K ) rming almost the entire soil on which we tread , it is diifethe

    < Mft to restr ^ ih imagination from hazarding some conjectures as to tftfe tiASiiseS by which s \ ich gre&t effects have been pr 0 dttc ^ d . "* - ^ -V 6 l . i , |^ : lift 118 . But largely as our earth is indebted for its varieties oif subatdnce to the remains of animal life , the contributions of the vegetable kingdom are found to be no less important . " Hie trees of the primitive forests have hot , like modern tre 1 es $ lih-< Wgtone decay , yielding back their elements to the soil and atiriospherfe by itfaMi they had been nourished ; but , ire&siiifed up in subterranean sforehouses ^ have beetk transformed into enduring beds of coal . My fire now burns with fuel and my lamp ia shining with the light of g ^ s derived from , coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep and dark recesses of the eartji . * * * . Thus , from the wreck of ; ft > w » ifj ttat Waved upon the suriFace of the primeval lands , and from ferimpn ^ vlieaud that was ip ^ lg ^ d at the bpttom pf the primeval waters , vr $ dejrive otir chief supply , gt , ( CQiat an 4 iroti . "—Vol . i , p . 66 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/19/