Part 2

THE WITNESS FOR THE MACRO-CHRONOLOGY.

A Court of Inquiry--The Witnesses--Testimony of One--Strata of Thames Tunnel--of Hertfordshire--of Yorkshire--of the Globe--Granite--Granitic Strata--Organic Remains--Silurian System--Corals--Trilobites--Mollusks--Devonian System--Old Red Sandstone--Its Formation--Fishes--Carboniferous System--Coral Limestone--Millstone Grit--Coal--Predominance of Carbonic Acid--Extent and Thickness of Coal-Fields--Formation of Coal--Conjecture as to its Age--Antediluvian Theory untenable--Sauroid Fishes--Earliest Reptiles--Footprints of Frogs 30-53

III.

THE SAME--(continued.)

Disturbances of Strata--Internal Heat--Changes of Land and Sea--New Red Sandstone--Footprints--Labyrinthodon--Lias Formation--Crinoids--Ammonites--Belemnites--Fishes--Marine Reptiles--Ichthyosaur--Plesiosaur--European Archipelago--Oolitic Formation--Cycads--Megalosaur-- Bat-Lizards--Iguanodon--Hylaeosaur--Earliest Mammal--Chalk Formation--Infusoria--Diatomaceae--Their Minuteness and Numbers--Chambered Cephalopods--Mosasaur--End of Secondary Formations--Convulsions--Basalt--Uprearing of Mountain Chains--London Clay--Plants and Animals--Fishes--Reptiles--Birds--Mammals--Anoplotherium--Condition of Europe--Dinotherium--Mastodon--Mammoth--Trees--Crag Formation--Tertiary Fauna--Bone Caves--Kirkdale--Erratic Blocks--Glaciers--Sloths--Marsupials--Birds--Raised Beaches--Human Period--Moho--Present Cosmical Operations--River Deltas--Coral Beefs--Volcanoes--Changes of Level--Earthy Deposits--Stalagmite--Shells--Recapitulation. 54-101

IV.

THE CROSS-EXAMINATION.

Grandeur of the Evidence--Proposed Line of Objection--It is but circumstantial--Example of Confusion of Thought--Analysis of the Reasoning---Dependent on the exhaustive Power of Observation--Relation of Precedence and Sequence--Of Cause and Effect--Force of my Position. 102-109

POSTULATES.

The Creation of Matter--The Persistence of Species. 110-112

VI.

LAWS.

The Course of Nature a Circle--Illustrations--Scarlet Runner--Lady-fern--Hawkmoth--Plumularia--Cow--Universality of the Law--Creation an Irruption into a Circle--False Witness to Past Processes--Prochronism and Diachronism--Phenomena illusory--Recapitulation 113-126

VII.

PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS.

(Plants.)

Ideal Tour on Creation-Day--Chronological Investigations--Queried Age of a Tree-fern--Data for the Inquiry--Development of the Leaves--Leaf-scars--Report--Its manifest Error--Selaginella--Bamboo-- Couch-grass--Screw-pine--Pashiuba--Sugar Palm--Areca--Rattan--Agave--Traveller's Tree--Butterfly Flower--Orchis--Gladiolus--Grass-tree--White Lily--Testudinaria--Caffer-Bread--Fig--Banyan--Euphorbia-- Tulip-tree--Bignonia--Loranthus--Prickly Pear--Mangrove--Silk-cotton-tree--Locust-tree--Restriction of the Inquiry--Uniform Testimony to Untruth 127-181

VIII.

PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS.

(Invertebrate Animals.)

Resumption of the Examination--SeaPen--Millepore-- Madrepore--Organ-pipe--Medusa--Sea-urchin--Feather-star-- Tapeworm--Serpula--Terebella--White-ant--Goliath-beetle-- Gnat--Case-fly--Melicerta--Julus--Buprestis--Shore-crab-- Barnacle--Lepralia--Botryllus--Clavagella--Prickly Venus--Scorpion Stromb--Tiger Cowry--Thorny Murex--Pearly Nautilus--Cuttlefish 182-239

IX.

PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS.

(Vertebrate Animals.)

Examination of the Vertebrata--Sword-fish--Gilt-head-- Laminae of Scales--Shark--Arrangement of Teeth--Their Structure--Tree-frog--Metamorphosis--Rattlesnake-- Crocodile--Tortoise--Laminae of Plates--Skull of Cassowary--Peacock--Humming-bird--Trogon--Structure and Growth of Feathers--Whalebone of Whale--Horn of Ibex--Horn of Stag--Teeth of Horse--Of Babiroussa--Of Hippopotamus--Tusk of Elephant--Molars of Elephant 240-273

PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS.

(Man.)

Examination of Primal Man--Blood--Its Formation--Its Oxygenation--Nails--Hair--Bones--Teeth--All formed by successive Processes--Stature--Thyroid Cartilage--Beard--Development of Teeth--Proportion of Bloods--Condition of Skeleton--Navel--False Conclusion 274-291