Show tides at present the moon la Is built makl away but were was a time hell this the moon moco only bartol WO or pay miles away that time litno must have corresponded to geo logical epoch it may have been car fact than ban the llie time lime when waco lived it is moro more likely to have been later inter I 1 want to point out that asen the ho moon aa U only miles amay aay mo am bad in ia it a geological engine of I 1 transcendent if the tidia elicits be three led feet and 11 11 iho early tides be times their prescot Rolo urit then it la Is that the abo ancient tides joint have been 04 alet there can bo be no DO doubt that ibm lo in and Eat timea tides or of tills amount anti and into tollit lidia very much larger must have hao occurred I 1 asked the geologists to tako take aa account of these facts and to lo consi consier consid dr tr tle cilmet is a tidal ribo and fall of fail it twice every day dahll for one ODO moment po pa tho the epee llo facts ora or tide fett high and ace what an agent it woold be for far she per foam buce of geological work I 1 weare wo arc noa leg 1 I 6 rut above abot ilia 1 ire 1 0 of die ala the itic sea 16 a good many talks miti from M if the rise and fall at the ibo coasts acre ere ml feet might hem boru as three quarters tido tide would b blog Ilois alio llio cal a into inlo the biliti of A ai liviu tide ibro would be about fert or of blue water over our beads bead enry emay boum b out c woold won id to be cound and the aps of it few a sold alone indicate the file ELIO of the town in a fw hours more be whole of this valt flood dead would bavo aavo retreated not only sold it leave england high and dry but probably pro bibly the straits iia of dover diver mould bo drained and p e chops even ireland would in a literal ile al acome a member or the united king dom data A few hours bour pu pass and tho whole of car england is ia abtin inundated but bul ocly obly again to to abandoned tham th mighty tides are the gift which a ammere have now maje made to he 7 working r king machinery or of the geologist they 1 hey constitute an engine of deific power fewer to aid in tho the amat work of geo gem logy agy ogy what would tho the puoy puny castle of WAILS IQ ilk other wayt accomplish allen bro comp amal with maj catic tides and aad the k graat scat current abc they produce ra IQ in tile griat amat primeval titled will probably bo be found the explanation of what has long been a reproach to geology ecology tho the early rocks rocki form A man of mccau made Is bode which according bedaro Boo twenty miles milca thick up to the top of abo beds it baa long acco a to lo conceive how bow such ft a gigantic tic quantity or of material could have been ground up anil and deposited at iho boiton catho eca tho the geologist said baid the rivers bad other agelas of be present day wilt will do it it 1 you gi a them time likic enough be I 1 t e ly elan and the iho a 1 PEll oPhes would nol dot give hem timo time enough and toE to hurry ScY up their tho the mathematicians m alb land had bad other fur for tit g that illa the he earth could oot not bay bato 0 beao en so old ld as osbo tto geologists demanded Z now or he 1 r mathematician LATO have discovered the now ail and it didul pleading engine with wish this ihu aid tho the get gel ill through rough their ibold work IQ in a reasonable period ol at time on dad the ile 9 colu at and the mathe mathematic mati alho ci nt ba reconciled by hall ball of Eng england rend |