No doubt the stratified rocks speak of the agency of water, but that agency was not the deluge. No doubt the gravel and the boulders found so extensively accumulated over the northern hemisphere were carried from their native places by the force of water; but that water was not the flood. No doubt traces of marine animals may be discovered on every high mountain, no matter how far that mountain may be distant from the main ocean; but these fossils were not deposited there by the breaking up of the great deep and the 40 days of incessant rain which fell upon the ark. These fossils extend downwards for some six or eight miles in depth, and how could a flood of some few months in duration make such a deposit? The fossils of the rocks are all deposited in the nicest order; those of one period are never mixed with the fossils of another. No antiquarian could sort his specimens with more order. No museum could observe more method in its arrangements. A deluge would sweep down everything in confusion and bury plants, animals, and minerals in one common ruin; such is not the character of the rocks—every fossil reveals the rocks from which it was dug, and every rock will tell the searcher what fossils he may expect to find there. We are told that the animals taken into the ark were the same as those which existed on the earth when the flood came, and that the animals preserved by Noah were the parents of existing species; but the fossils of the rocks are wholly different to any existing specimens of plant or animal. Shell fish are found upon inland mountains, but not the shell fish of our present system. Bones of animals are found far from the native haunts of the living creatures, but they are altogether strange bones, and never belonged to the animals of the ark. They are all relics of extinct species, and amongst all the fossils no trace of man can be detected. No trace of the houses built by Cain and his offspring. No trace of the iron and brass instruments forged by Tubal-Cain and his descendants. We find traces of the most delicate leaves of plants, traces of birds, and beasts, and creeping things; but none of man, or of the works of man. If the same flood swept away both man and beast, bird and fish, reptile and insect, tree and boulder, how is it we never find them buried in the same bed—overwhelmed in the same grave? Demonstration could not go further. The whole earth from its lowest depth to its surface denies the universality of the flood, and not one particle of proof can be pointed out in confirmation of the legend.