Carboniferous, both in Europe and
America. No reptilian remains have yet been found in the Devonian
rocks.]

[Footnote 57: _Biblical Repository_, 1856. See also an excellent paper
by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, _Bibliotheca Sacra_, 1867.]

[Footnote 58: Rhode, quoted by McDonald, "Creation and the Fall," p. 62;
Eusebius, Chron. Arm.]

[Footnote 59: Suidas, Lexicon--"Tyrrenia."]

[Footnote 60: Diodorus Siculus, bk. i. Prichard, Egyptian Mythology.]

[Footnote 61: "Asiatic Researches."]

[Footnote 62: This name is exactly identical in meaning with the Hebrew
Jehovah Elohim.]

[Footnote 63: Mueller, Sanscrit Literature.]

[Footnote 64: The theology of the Institutes is clearly primitive
Semitic in its character; and therefore, if the Bible is true, must be
older than the Aryan theogony of the Rig-Veda, as expounded by Mueller,
whatever the relative age of the documents.]

[Footnote 65: "Recent Advances in Physical Science."]

[Footnote 66: Croll's "Climate and Time" contains some interesting facts
as to this.]

[Footnote 67: See the discussion of this in the author's "Story of the
Earth," and in Sir William Thomson's British Association Address, 1876.]

[Footnote 68: Daniell's Meteorological Essays; Prout's Bridgewater
Treatise; art. "Meteorology," Encyc. Brit.; "Maury's Physical Geography
of the Sea."]

[Footnote 69: Kaemtz, "Course of Meteorology."]

[Footnote 70: Encyc. Brit., art. "Meteorology."]

[Footnote 71: It is not meant that the word _rakiah_ occurs in these
passages, but to show how by other words the idea of stretching out or
extension rather than solidity is implied. The verb in the first two
passages is _nata_, to spread out.]

[Footnote 72: See also Humboldt, "Cosmos," vol. ii., pt. 1.]

[Footnote 73: Heb., "they refine."]

[Footnote 74: "His pavilion round about him was dark waters and thick
clouds of the skies," Psa. xviii. This expression explains that in the
text.]

[Footnote 75: Or "He darkens the depths of the sea."]

[Footnote 76: Translation of these lines much disputed and very
difficult. Gesenius and Conant render it, "His thunder tells of him; to
the herds even of him who is on high."]

[Footnote 77: I take advantage of this long quotation to state that in
the case of this and other passages quoted from the Old Testament I have
carefully consulted the original; but have availed myself freely of the
renderings of such of the numerous versions and commentaries as I have
been