Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-10
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A d.y Or ..o sioes - presented ne rs'. NV,
.srass,ss% sasss a. "a soorr asss.lIs orsal
| Easier~-- ftem which 1t appeared hat The Great
| Easters Il l33 fsst longer than was the Ark. and
about 8 feel despsr, bnt NOS % broad within
feet Asah illsslfssisn IT The change 10 idSas OF
navigation Which The building Of NE Greet Eas'
tsrs ]. calesiassd % produce. We VIII quote ne
faowing paragraph from IN slAbcnts article h.
sued some thirteen years since. In the cAs.eA 81
EagLasd Quarterly. ON tho pelugs. and reputiish-
cd In LiTrgLL's Lpisg Age;
Now, A. il 10 clearly impossible that . vessel It
Of the length and breadth ofshe Ark coald be 9th.
erwiss than floating vessel. Designed entirely
b. ass.ba,.omod and ssrsish.-sid.d; both a. max
ing Il the moro buoysnt and - giving 70 It the
greatest capacity. Il was devoid ofall sailing
properties; had neither rigging nor radder; its
build was simply that u huge hs,at. to all out
ward appearance WHISKY at the mercy OF the
winds and tho waves. liable to he drilled or driv-
en- according ascending ~ currents Vt winds for
the time prevailed; bat NJ we shall shUw the Ark
could not for q mament have been subjected to
the influence Of eithsr winds or tidos. The ex'rd-
ordinary length Of the Ark proves. Mt ONO, the
miraculous power that was. ut every moment. in
exercise Err its preservation, since nv vessel OF the
Ark's proportions conl naturally live in disturb
ell waters: Tie rery first rare that rose ronid i"ep-
nor nth al our experience in ship-buiidiag W0uld
IL be possible 10 construct vessel Of The Ayks pro-
portions aud 10 ndrigate il from Dorer 10 Calais ~
touah ueafher--the lenst swcll III the ocean, by
raising me emu and depressing the other would
break il in tho middle aud cause Il 10 founder nor
could any possible contrivance or ingenuity OF
construction prevent this consequence. And IT
the very peculiar construction Of the Ark had MT
made such a conclusion irresistible. the purpose
Cor which it was bailt would have proved that
such was the Tact, for had the Ark pitched in the
least from tho swell Of the waves rolled at all
from one side 10 sidc under the influence Of the
wind. which from it's great length aud hate widfh,
il must most Increasingly hare done, tho whole
world Of animals therein contained conli not have
kept their footing; Of very necessity therefore n
dead calm must have prevailed around the Ark
during the whole Of tbs one hundred and fifty
DAYS that IL was floating on the waters"
Here. We see, II Ia said that vessel us long as
tho Ark could not possibly live except in a dead
calm-that the least agitation wonld break its
back-and that 19ntinnow miracle was necessa-
ary to avert such & cntastrophe. Yet here IL tie
Great Eastern ono hundred and thirty-thrce feet
longer. about to navigate not 'froin Dover to
Calais" but from England to America, and af,er-
wards to go half around tho world, making sport
Of all the winds and waves. 1t 10 said, too, that
the great length and little width" Of the ark
would have caused such pitching and rolling
that the animnls inside could not have kept their
footing. hero is a ship great deal longer
and materially narrower that will, II what they
promise Of it is true, maintain u condition Of nj
most perfect equilibrium and repose even in tho
toughest wcnther.
The late pr. Scorsby concusively established
a series of experiments on the waves Of tie Allan
tic TINT vessel Of some 900 feet in length. could
never fall into the tron of the sea, ono wave
wouli counteract tho effect of another. Thus in
stead of mirncle To save the Ark's back il would
have taken u miracle to have broken its back,
constructe "a 1t was. Tho English Churohman
is not tho FIRST man who has been superservicea-
BILE in clearing up Scripture difficulties which had
no existence but In bis own imagination. The
sacred record needs no eking out by human inge-
nuity; it IL best left to it's own simple state-
ment.