. Bible astronomy; or, The little book on the mysteries and wonder of the rise and fall of Babylon . raction of the Moon; and the back-ward apparent motion in the direction of the dart T., caused by the easterlyrotation of the outer world in twenty-four houfs. Now add forty-five min-utes for each days progressive motion of the inner world to the twenty-fourhours rotation of the outer one, and it will make up for the apparent west-erly motion of the inner world around the Earths centre once in twenty-four hours forty-five or fifty minutes. The inner world W. turns upon its axis from west to eas
. Bible astronomy; or, The little book on the mysteries and wonder of the rise and fall of Babylon . raction of the Moon; and the back-ward apparent motion in the direction of the dart T., caused by the easterlyrotation of the outer world in twenty-four houfs. Now add forty-five min-utes for each days progressive motion of the inner world to the twenty-fourhours rotation of the outer one, and it will make up for the apparent west-erly motion of the inner world around the Earths centre once in twenty-four hours forty-five or fifty minutes. The inner world W. turns upon its axis from west to east. The sprayabove the letter 0. represents the violence of the tides, and the inner mael-strom. The parallel line that clips the tides shows the level of the sea in-side. The dart L shows the spray arising from the mountains, and theviolence of the flood outside of the Earth. would follow from the violence of the flood upon the Earth, that evenmountains were torn up by the roots and new ones formed, and all theface of the Earth changed, from the petrification of sea shells to be found. 22 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. in all parts of it, besides the formations that might have been formed inthe different grades of the Earth; and we have good reason to suppose thatthere was, for there were fishes and birds in the fifth grade long beforeAdam was made, and each grade might have occupied a period of one thou-sand years; aud there might have been shell fish in the Earth even in itsprimitive state, and that they become mixed up with all the world in thesecond and third grades. you stand upon the shores of the Ocean and see the tide approach-ing, then know that the inner world is passing beaeath your feet in all thatmighty grandure of revolving ATTRACTION. Instead of there being a difference in the rate of attractionon the in respect to their sizes, there is but one uni- form rale governing them all, only as it respects their differentsizes in relation to the
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