REMARKS,

&c.

REMARKS

11826.

ON

CERTAIN PARTS OF MR. GRANVILLE PENN'S

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE

OF THE

Mineral and Mosaical Geologies,

AND ON OTHER

GEOLOGICAL WRITINGS of the PRESENT DAY,

WHICH AFFECT THE

RIGHT INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE.

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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

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1826.

Introduction

CONTENTS.

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vii

CHAPTER I.

On the interpretation of the Hebrew word D-Iom-Day,

in the Mosaic account of the Creation, and of the pro-

mulgation of the Law upon Mount Sinai

CHAPTER II.

The Hebrew feast of the new moon-The computation of

the Day from Evening to Morning-The division of time

into Weeks.

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CHAPTER III.

The Curse, pronounced upon the Earth for the sake of

man immediately after the Fall, had no reference to the

Noachic Deluge

CHAPTER IV.

On the Rain, which fell for the space of forty days and

forty nights

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