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WILLIAM CARPENTER,

AUTHOR OF "SCIENTIA BIBLICA," "SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY," "GUIDE TO THE READING
OF THE BIBLE," "LECTURES ON BIBLICAL CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION," "A POPULAR
INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE," "THE BIBLICAL COMPANION," "CRITICA BIBLICA,"
"CALENDARIUM PALESTINE," AND EDITOR OF THE FIFTH LARGE EDITION OF
"CALMET'S DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE," AND OF THE ABRIDGMENT OF
THE SAME, ETC., ETC., ETC.

Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied
moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far, or
be too well studied in the book of God's word. Rather let men en-
deavour an endless progress or proficiency therein.-BACON.

We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious, indeed, at the first
ascent; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and
melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not
more charming.-MILTON.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLXVIII.

12

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER, LEA AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.

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
Natural Science-Moses' arrangement of created things
Harmony and gradation pervading the Animal
Kingdom

PART I.-ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY.
Notices of the planetary system in the Bible-Meteorology
-The Seasons of Palestine and their Phenomena

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 rocks-
Fossil 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

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CHAPTER II.-GEOLOGICAL TERMS OF THE BIBLE.

CHAPTER III.-GEOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES.

EARTHS:

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- Brimstone- Pitch-Salt-Soap. - METALS:— Gold-Silver-Amber-Iron-Lead-Tin .

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