Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-02-25

it, upon which some few have EXPRESSED
doubts. Those sophisms are no, important
We know that God said, "Le, there be ligh,
and light was" 1t was equally competen,
Tor him to separate the waters from the dry
land, and to surround them with the firma-
ment, IN the same space of time-"and the
evening and the morning were the frs, day y
Every rock, and stone, and disintegrated
atom of sand every stratum of earth, and OF
animal remains, and marine deposite-every
tree and plant, and shrub, and flower, as we'll
as every living thing ,ha. creeps upon the
earth, or fowl that moves through The air,
or creature that floats in the waters Of The
deep, shew the hand Of their Great Divine
Creator as distinctly as the beams and tim
bers, or stones and mortar of building do
The hand Of the architect which constructed
1t. Nay, further, a thorough examination
into The ear.h's formation, and its subsequent
changes, and The causes which produced
them, as far as they can be traced to causes
which facts shew 10 have transpired. prove
bey ond all reasonable doubt, that the first
account which we have of the creation is
true in every item and particular, and thai,
The present condition Of The ear,h's surface
and every change which it has undergone,
is clearly reconcileable with the Moasaic
account of the creation and Of the Noachi-
an deluge. Science does not produce doubt
and sceptcism but it tends to dispel that,
darkness with which ignorance and false
philosophy have endeavored to enshroud
the mind, and most clearly does it"point the
way through nature up to natures God.'-
Geology has removed every doub, which
could have existed as to the truth of Mosaic
history.
| have said that my geological researches
were not so extensive as to justify my en-
tertaining any opinion adverse to those ex-
pressed by professed scientific men, and tina,
in this branch Of natural science | am bul
an inquirer.
.,"l1ll IT. es se,a;nsn 1,:;z,nb0Ia.r n line d,s wn
Potomac, at Washington, across to the
Bay below Annapolis, and near
the mouth of South river, or in that region,
and comprising the area below that line and
between the Chesapeake Bay and the river
Po,omac, is rightly assigned to the Tertiary
period, with diluvial formations and slIu-
vial deposi'es. Ills no, perhaps essential to
the result of our inquiries to determine to
which Of the geological periods Of the Ter
'iary epoch each particular section of this
peninsula may belong-whelher the whole
country be assigned to Eocene, the Miocene
or the Pliocene formations, or whether por-
lions of it are comprehended within each
Of them respectively, as ] think they are
At all events, the mari district embraces the
whole of this Tertiary region, and although
in many places it lies too low to be acces-
siblc and available for agricultural purposes
yet the geological period to which i, be-
longs tends to indicate the character of the
lands, and consequently, in some measure,
the species of manure and fer,ilizing agents
TO be employed to resuscilate them. In a
report made to the Legislature, through the
Governor, by the late Doctor DucArEL, the
States Geologis, in 1884, he says, in de-
scribing the "Geology OF Prince Georges
and Charles counties, on the Po,omac,''-
sThis section Of the State of Mary land, com
mencpg al the north east branch Of the Po-
,omac, exhibits a succession of abrupt hills.
crowned by pls,eans of variable extent and
sloping gently towards The south. These
hills consis, in diluvial depos,e Of gravel,
sand and clay, in some places covered by q
considerable accumulation of erratc boul-
ders derived from the primitive mountains
to which they are adjacent. The depth Of
this diuvial deposlte varies from two hun
dred to a very few feet, diminishing in thick
ness as the hills decrease in elevation, in
The direction of their slope towards the Ches-
peake Bay" sit is very probable that this
diluvial formation rests in nearly the whole
of its extent upon vast accumulation Of
fossil shells imbedded sometimes in ferru-
ginous sand, sometimes in clay, and cons,i-
,uling the mari deposies Of the State. The
ravines, which separate the hills, being most
ly the beds of so many torrents through
which the drainage Of the country is effect.
ed, frequently furnish, when not too deeply
loaded with aluvisl matter. good opportuni.
ties for ascerlaining the nature of the sub.
stratum, Nothing of any importance ha: