Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-08-02

gradually retire 10 their wonted beds. lr
this diluvium, pebbles and loam are conius'
edlv in,erminglcd, totally unlike regularly
formed strata, and just as rushing waters
would have blended them together. This
diluvium is to be seen over the face OF the
whole earth, even on the lofty mountains
and in it are intermingled the bones of var
ious animals, thus proving incOntestably,
that the deluge covered those mountains,
and oyerspread the globe. Enormous
masses of granite and other rocks are
strewed on hills and in valleys, through
out the greater par, the northern hemls-
phere, which have been drited over noun
tains, valleys and seas, requiring for their
removal thus, force and body Of water
which nought but general inundallon
could have furnished. Valleys wide and
deep, called valleys ofdenudation, exist in
all parts of the world, which exhibit indu-
bitable evidences of having been cxcava-
ted by irresistible diluvial torrents. The
vast valley of the Rhone, for example, has
been excavated between the Jungtrau and
Monte Rosa, and its disrupted excavations
are strown over the plains OF Burgundy.
Even the Baltic sea has evidently been
sconcd out in this manner. In numerous
instances, mountains are torn asunder,
leaving chasms of frightful deph. And
as the reverse ofthis, stnpendous granite
fragments of mountains in many places
tower in awful majesty thousands Of feet
aoft, entirely insulated from other noun
tain masses in the same regions, and even
in their immediate vicinity; thus showing,
that the intermediate elevations which for
merlv must have connected them, have
been swept away. Mount Cervin, an iso-
lated pyramids of more than 5000 feet in
height, situated on the most lofty ridge OF
the Alps, and likewise the Landscrone, a
mountain in the plains of Lusace, situated
about two leagues from chain of noun
tains of its own kind, and rising like su-
Gar loaf nearly thousand feet, are strik-
ngexamp!es ofthis kind. In many places,
hills Of large size exhibit evidences Of
having been accumulated by the commo-
ton of the waters, being composed OF
gravel, fragments of rock, vegetable sub
stances, and even the bones of animals !.
On the other hand, vast valleys have been
discovered, filled up with the rushing
wreck of diuvial rubbish, beneath which
have been discovered the beds of rivers,
fields and forests! Traces cfmighty cur
rents may be seen on the surface of many
hills and valleys, in the masses of rock
strewed along upon them and on Tcmov-
ing the surface, rakings appear upon the
solid rocks beneath, which must have been
occasioned by the drifting of those rocky
fragments. IN various parts Of the world,
immense boulder stones, containing thou
sauds of cubic yards, disintergrated from
their native mountains lie spread over the
far distant plains, whittier they must have
been rolled by the irresistible torrents of a
subsiding inundation. There are numer-
Gus caverns strewed with animal bones Of
various kinds, imbedded in diluyium ;
whittier it is evident those animals fled to
avoid the rising Hood, and there met their
fate, being drowned by the torrent of in
rushing waters, and buried beneath the
masses of its accompanying diluvium.
Some of the mouths of these caverns are
even choked up by these diluvial masses.
Further evidences of the universally and
sudden occurrence ofthe deluge. may be
seen in the fact, that even the arctic reg
ions are strewed with the relics of animal
and vegetable productions which now ex-
ist in the temperate and torrid zones alone
thereby demonstrating, that the climate of
the antedlluvian worldin high polar lati-
tudes, must have been much more mild
than at present, and that refrigerating
change, like that which universal satura-
tlon of the globe with water, and la dimin-
ution ofthe surface of the land (Which at
that time evidently happened might be ex-
pected to occasion. has actually taken
place. So sudden was this catastrophe
and its consequent change of climate, that
undecayed carcases ofelephants have been
found in6xed in the everlasting ices of ST.
beria-and numerous fossiled vegetables,
in their various stages Of growth, remain
to attest, with their countless leaves, and
branches, and stalks, the fearful visitation
of the destroying catastrophe !
THE MORMONS.
The circumstances related concerning
the discovery of the Book Of Mormon, its
translation byi he inspired Joe Smith, and
the subsequent emigration to Missouri, are
familiar to all. But in consequence OF the
"mobocracy," of that region, the revelation
making an assignment ofthat country Tor
the location Of the "New Jerusalem." was
nosrponed for "furlher consideration" and
,,o,bcr DESIGNATED as one Of the ''Stakes OF