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Excerpt from The Physical History of the Creation of the Earth and Its Inhabitants The sixth Drum - Land animals created; first appearance of man - he is clothed with dominion over the earth and all its in habitants; man created in the image of God, and destined to increase and replenish the earth the sixth day of creation, as described by Moses; the Tertiary formation described; its fossils and geographical distribution; its gradual passage in'tp the Alluvium, or present geological era; Nummulite rocks the London and Paris basins character of Tertiary rocks; vegeta tion' of the Tertiary; beds of brown coal and lignite insects, polyps, animalcules, and fishes; the ancient and modern fishes progressive development and degradation of species disproved; Hugh Miller; fossils of whales; their immense size; etc; peculiar significance of the language of Moses the Bible requires no apologies in its behalf; the. Tertiary pre-eminently the age of land animals; classification bf Mammalia; the Diadelphian order; pouched animals the Monadelphian order the Testacea; the Rumina'ntia; the Pachydermata; the Edentata; the R0 dentia; the Cheiroptera; the Amphibia; the Carnivora; gene ral description of the animal kingdom, terminating with the Quadrumana, and the Bimana; the object of creation attained in man; the marriage qf Adam and Eve; the celebration of the work of creation, and the dawn of the Sabbath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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