The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-04-18

YRRSAL DELUGE-THE TESTING
NY OF THE RoCKS-oUR WORLD
NOT FINISHED YET-GEOLOGY
VERSUS GENESIS. Egel II
The San Francisco Chronicle has
this account Of a lecture delivered
in that city on the evening Of March
10Th:
Professor Denton was confronted
on Thursday night by the largest
audience which his lectures Lave
yet drawn. The last was, at least
in a pec,niary sense, the best OF all
But the professor, like a genuine
| Yankee as he is, did not shoot tht
last shaft from his quiver withou
intilnating that he has in reserve .
fresh qniver, from which next week
he is going to shoot an assortment
of brand new shafts. In other
words, be is going to deliver an
other
COURSE OF LECTURES,
In which abandoning the safe
ground Of the history Of our planet
az It can be read in the record Of
the rocks, be proposes to forecast
the future Of our globe and its H.
hanitapts, from the data furnished
in the past history Of the earth. A
certain element Of fanciful specula.
ton, not strictly scientiticin its char.
acter, may reasonably be expected
to lend its flavor to the new course.
THE DRIFT BEDS.
The Professor commenced his
lecture last night by remarking that
the pathway ofour planet, through
the universities Of space, is moi
straight and regular, nor its march
uniform. Its history is a history oi
yicissitudes. Of strange vicissitudes
The drift beds exhibit powders d
all sizes, from that ofa boys marble
to rocks of the size of a meeting
house. These beds extend over im
mense surfaces.
NO TRUE GEoLoGIsT
Believes the story Of a universa
deluge. Such an event is q mani
fest impossibility, whatever the the
ologians may attest 70 the contrary
There never was water enough Of
the globe or in its atmosphere i
produce such Q food as that whicl
the theologians profess to belicv'
in; geology is, on this point, at wa
with Genesis; and science and com
mon sense are on the side OF geolo
gy. There have certainly been
PARTIAL DELUGE,
But no universal deluge. The
story Of Noah and his ark must b
ranked with the Deucation. In tbe
drift beds are found some curious
and interesting relics Of animal life
Among them is beaver more thar
twice as large as the existing repre-
sentative of the species. Also the
skeletons Of elephants, and Of the
great cave hyena, a terrible monster
81 which we have no living type
among the .ttt,tnd Of our present
era. In 1858 q new cave was dis
covered in Deyonshire, England, II
which skeletons Of the
aa 4a.{ta, CAVE BEAR h5s
| Were discovered, also skeletons o
elephants. Savans from LondoT
went down to Devonshire to exam
inc these strange relics. From thes'
researches it appeared that man IL
Great Britain had q wonderful an
Itiquity, and was the contemporsr!
Of the British elephant, the rhinoc
eros and the cave bear. Th'
bones Of two distinct species Of ele
phant, OF the cave bear, and OF tn
cave lion were discovered in. II
Devonshire caves, and also varion
tools and implements, indlcatin
that the contemporsneous man po'
sesaed q considerable endowmet {
mechanical skill and contriysnc'
II is impossible for the preacher
and theolCgians to stand up aga n'
these It'll ttie3G 9H
9il WRITINGS ON THE ROCKS.
Iyell thinks that instead Of OF