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others you must add the directions usually
given in the old polypharmic prescriptions: :
We'll taken 10 be well sl,akrn.'
NoAH's ARK AND THE GREAT EASTERN.
/ The Great Eastern is 1873 feet longer
than WAS the Ark, and about three feet
deeper. but not 20 broad within feet
As an illustration Of the change Of ideas in
navigation which'th the building Of the Great
Eastern is calculated to produce, we will
quote the following paragraph from an
elaborate article issued sorLe thirteen years
since, in the Church of England Quarterly.
on the DoIuge, and re. published in Li,,ell's
Living Age -
Now. as it is clearly impossible that
vessel ofthe length and breadth Of the Ark
could be otherwise then a floating vessel,
designed entirely for perfectly still waters,
we have supposed it to be fiat .bottoIncd
and straight si'led :. botl, as making it the
more buovant and as giving TO it the great
est capacity. It was devoid Of all sailing
properties had neither rigging nor rudde,;
its build was simply that Of hug. float to
all outward appearance wholly at the mercy
of the winds and the waves, liable to be
drifted or driven about according as cur
rents or winls for tn. tins prevailed but
as we shall show the Ark could not for
! moment have been sub jecte,l to the influence
Of either winds or tides. The extraordinary
| length Of the Ark proves, at once, the
miraculous power that was at every moment
in exercise for it's preservation. since no
vessel Of Tho Ark's proportions could ma.
turaly live in disturbed waters the very
first wave that rise would inevitably break
its back and rcnd it entirely asuud-r; nor
with all our experience in shipbuild'ng
would it he possible to construct vessel of
the Ark's proportions and to navigate it
! from Dover TO Calais in rough wea,herthe
least swell of the scean, by raising one end
and depressing ,lls other would bcak 1t in
the middle and ssosse it to founder, nor could
any possible 'cohthxance or ingenuity Of
construction prevent, this corgequcncc.-
And if the very peculiar construction of
the Ark had not made such conclusion
irresistible. the purpose for which it was
! built would have proved that such WAS the
fact; for, had the AK pitched in the Ieas,
from the swell Of the waves or rolled at all
from side, lo side under The influence Of the
wind. which, from its great length and little
width it must most distressingy have done,
the whole world of animals therein contained
could not have kept their footing: Of very
necessity. therefore, dead calm must have
prevailed around the ark during the whole
Of the ono hundred and fifty days that it
was floating on the waters.
1t is said that vessel As long rs the Ark
could not live except in a dead can,-that
the least agitation soald break its back
and that continuous miracle WAS neccs.
sary to avert such n catastrophe. Yet here
is the ureat Eastern one hundred and
thirty three feet longer, about TO navigate
not from Dover to Calais, but from England
to America aHd!afterwardsto to 60 half round
! the world making sport Of nll the winds
and waves. Ii is said, too, that the great
length and little width, Of the Ark would
have caused such u pitching and rolling
that the animals inaids could not have kept
their footing: Yetafere js = ship n great
deal longer aud materially narrower that
will if What they promise Of it is true, main.
tain copji,ion Of almost perfect equilibrium
and repose even in the toughest weather. .
The late Dir. Scorsby concIusively cstab.
lislrd Ivy series of experiments on the
waves OF the Atlantic, That vessel of some
500 feet in length could never fall into the
trough Of the sea AZ one ware would coun-
teract the effect Of another. Thus, instead
ofa miraelsto save tho Ark's back, it
would tfaveaaken miracle to have broken
its back constructed as it WINS. The English
Chut Gilman. SAYS the Courier. is no, the
first man who has been asuperserviceahIe in
clearing up Scripture difficulties which had
mo. existence but In his own Imagination.
The sacred record needsno, liking out by
human ingenuity il is best left TO its own
simple statement.
SEA BATHINe.-Sea bathing, on account
of it's s'imulative and penetrating power,
may be placed at the head Of those means
that regard the care Of the skin, and which