...existence, while it gives us a view of another dis' tinct period of the living world; that is to say, the world which ' we inhabit is composed of the materials,...consider as the third, ' and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of ' the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the waters of ' the...

...ages rolled Upon their topmost capitals. " The world which we inhabit, " says Buckland, "is com" posed of the materials, not of the earth which was the "...the surface of the sea, while our present land " was beneath the waters of the Ocean. There are three " distinct successive periods of existence, and each...

...—not of the system of nature which was the immediate predecessor of the present; but,—of ths system which in ascending from the present we consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present continents were yet beneath its waters." "There...

...animals which are proper to that fluid medium." — " The world which we inhabit," he continues, " is composed of the materials, not of the earth which...and which had preceded the land which was above the level of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the waters of the ocean. There are three distinct,...

...ocean must have been filled with materials before land could be made to appear above its surface. . . . The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials,...consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the water of the ocean.12...

...his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, discussing . . . something: The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials,...consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the water of the ocean....

...globe of this Earth has existed." But after Jedburgh and Siccar Point what estimate could there be? "The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials...predecessor of the present but of the earth which . . . had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea while our present land was yet beneath...

...indefinite for their destruction ...' And if there had been one cycle, there must have been many more. 'The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials,...consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the water of the ocean....