WILLIAM CARPENTER, AUTHOR OF "SCIENTIA BIBLICA," "SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY," "GUIDE TO THE READING Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious, indeed, at the first VOL. II. LONDON: S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. [*** The references are to the figures at the bottom of each page.] BIBLICAL NATURAL HISTORY. INTRODUCTION.-Character and Style of the Bible as to PART I.-ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY. PART II.-GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. CHAPTER I.-THE BOOK AND THE ROCKS. Mosaic account of the Creation-Use of the term DAY, in the Bible, to signify an indefinite Period-Formation of the earth's crust-Stratified and unstratified rocksFossil remains of former life-Geology and the Bible alike opposed to atheism-Man's place in the creation -Harmony between the Bible and the discoveries of Geology CHAPTER II.-GEOLOGICAL TERMS OF THe Bible. CHAPTER III.-GEOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES. PAGE 1 6 14 42 EARTHS: Brimstone- Pitch-Salt-Soap. · -METALS: 45 Gold-Silver-Amber-Iron-Lead-Tin . |