A NEW SYSTEM OF GEOLOGY, IN WHICH THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE, ARE RECONCILED AT ONCE TO MODERN SCIENCE AND SACRED HISTORY. BY ANDREW URE, M.D. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND LECTURER ON CHEMISTRY IN THE ANDERSONIAN UNIVERSITY. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN. M. DCCC.XXIX. CONTENTS. Page Cosmogony of the Greeks-Idolatry of the learned, Bacon on intercourse of Science and Revelation, Geology of Hutton and Werner alike ideal, Sun not the molten parent of the planets, Author's motives for writing the present work, Light existed before the sun and is independent of his beams, 21 Vibratory diffusion of light by advancing and receding pulses, How double light from the sun may cause darkness, Composition and complex relations of water, Creation and analogies of fishes and fowls, Primeval state of man, CHAP. V.-Primitive Rock Formations, § viii. Granite-its varieties-extensive distribution, Mystical transition from inorganic inertia to organic life, . 1. Greywacke, an intermediate or transition-rock, CHAP. III.-Medial or Carboniferous Strata, 129 ib. Lignites, or bituminised wood, not true pit-coal, §i. Magnesian limestone; equivalent of the German zechstein, 187 Its great fossil lizards or monitors, in Thuringia, ii. Red marl, or new red sandstone, Locality of the English rock salt; section of Northwich mines, 193 iii. Oolitic series-lower, middle, and upper defined, iv. Lias-Section of its beds at Westbury Cliff,. Organic remains of lias, see Plate II.-its general extent, Ichthyosaurus-tooth figured-characteristic, . § v. Inferior members of the third or lower system of oolites, vi. Upper beds of the lower oolite-Cornbrash, Stonesfield slate, Forest marble, and great oolite, |