Excerpt from Bible Astronomy, or the Little Book on the Mysteries and Wonders of the Rise and Fall of Babylon

In getting up the present theory on the organic illustration of the earth, and to provide suitable text to give t've figure throughout, and then har moniza all the singular phenomena connected with it in that great chain of connecting links that binds it all together in a system of philosophy that cannot be separated Without destroying the whole. And leaving all these great mysteries forever unexplained that go to develope every single feature connected with it, as well as might be by actua' disco ery. We will take the Earth from its primitive state through a succession of grades, as itoriginated from thatdtrlt state into a world of light, that goes to develop. Its collossivr form. Although the bible does not explain all these things direct, because it aims at our spiritual interest, which is or more impor tance to us than all the glories of this world, that go in part to give us the great character of the builder; yet when it is properly interpreted, and brought into proper form, it is more than evident; although many say that the bible will prove everything, the writer denies the posibihty of proving anythzng else but the one form Conneted with the Earth and its mechan ism, as laid down in the present illustration.

There are many things brought to bear in the present treaties that the bible does not explain direct. For instance, the polar prosections, or land surrounding the poles, which has to be inferred for this good reason, 111 re lation to the flood First: 'i he waters that composed it were taken but of the Earth, or from the immense seas on the in's1de of the exterior world; and if the seas were ionnected by the poles in any way the 'water would pass into them as fast as it arose outs1de. If they were not Complete'y de harrt d by land previous to the flood. All the fountains of the great deep spoken of in the bible in relation to the flood, has reference to all the great vents where the water passes through the crust of the Earth from one sea to the other lying opp0site, the mo t Conspicuous of which is the maelstrom on the coast of Not 352, where the water goes dt an. T Ld the (5 hit oi Mex ico, where it rises again, -and the small orbit of the inner worlds around the Earth's center every twenty-seven and a half days has to be inferred, from the tides, the Gulf of Mexico, and this very thing, connected with the flood, the backward mot on or the planets every twenty-four hours and fort) -five minutes, from the rotation of the outer world and the time of rotation of the whole by correspond 11g motion one with another.

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