PREFACE TO THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. CHAPTER I. ON THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD. CHAPTER II. FIRST DAY. Section I. Chaos. CHAPTER III. SECOND DAY. ON THE ATMOSPHERE. CHAPTER IV. THIRD DAY. Section I. The Sea. CHAPTER V. FOURTH DAY. Section I. The Sun. CHAPTER VI. FIFTH DAY. Section I. Fishes. CHAPTER VII. SIXTH DAY. Section I. On Quadrupeds and Reptiles. CHAPTER VIII. SEVENTH DAY. On The Sabbath. ILLUSTRATED BY DISCOVERIES AND EXPERIMENTS DERIVED FROM THE PRESENT ENLIGHTENED STATE OF SCIENCE; WITH REFLECTIONS, INTENDED TO PROMOTE VITAL AND PRACTICAL RELIGION. BY THOMAS WOOD, A. M. REVISED AND IMPROVED BY THE REV. J. P. DURBIN, A. M. Professor of Languages, Augusta College, Kentucky. “Every man has a particular train of thought into which his mind falls, when at leisure, from the impressions and ideas which occasionally excite it; and if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is surely that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent author.”—Bacon. FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. NEW-YORK. — MCELRATH & BANGS. 1831. [Entered, according to the Act of Congress, July 27, in the year 1831, by McElrath & Bangs, in the Office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.] |