When Saturn’s rings fall to the body of the planet its moons will necessarily retire a little farther from it. Astronomers say that our moon is gradually retiring from the earth. Then it must have had an annular system which fell and caused the moon to recede. FURTHER EXAMINATION OF THE RECORD. The vapors contained silex, quartz and whatever else was vaporized and suspended therein. After the atmosphere had cooled it deposited on the earth what it contained when heated. Much of the sedimentary beds built upon the Laurentian and older rocks were simply precipitated from the annular system. Iron and sulphur existed in the upper ocean as metallic and mineral salts. In the cooling process the heavier minerals and metals would necessarily locate nearest the earth and be the first to fall. True they were disseminated to a certain extent throughout the system. Iron and other heavy metals formed beds in the sea bottom. Iron from Iron Mountain, Mo., and Pilot Knob, also lead and copper ores are in the Laurentian rocks. These rocks are aqueous or sedimentary. The annular matter fell but in small part in equatorial regions, but largely in temperate and frigid zones. It is folly to suppose that all the matter of aqueous beds were deposited from previous aqueous beds by denudation. How were subsequent lime deposits made from silicious Archaean beds? Denudation has taken place in all ages, and a fall and precipitation of exotic matter--tellurio-cosmic matter--aided in the work. CONCLUSIONS REACHED. 1. All terrestial waters were held in suspension. 2. This rotated as a part and parcel of the earth--a primeval atmosphere of great complexity of material. 3. This suspended matter gathered in the earth’s equatorial heavens, and on condensing contracted and segregated into rings which revolved independently. 4. The waters on high fell in a succession of stupendous cataclysms. 5. The first ocean was impregnated with mineral and metallic salts. 6. It required a vast lapse of time for rings to fall. Each ring continued to revolve as a belt about the earth with a decreasing velocity as it spread toward the poles and overcanopied the earth. 7. The smoke or unconsumed carbon that arose from the earth, darkened the upper vapors and formed bands or belts. 8. The moon retarded the rings, causing them to fall upon the earth, and it then receded from our planet. 9. The Archaean metalliferous deposits are so located as to be inexplicable by the old theory of aqueous denudation. 10. The Silurian beds, and particularly the order of their occurrence utterly refutes the idea that they were derived from pre-existing beds. DEMONSTRATED BY HISTORIC TESTIMONY.