Identifier: bibleastronomyor00melc (find matches)
Title: Bible astronomy; or, The little book on the mysteries and wonder of the rise and fall of Babylon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Melcher, Josiah F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible Astronomy Astronomy in the Bible
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., Printed at the St. Louis intelligencer buildings
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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BIBLE ASTRO N 0 M I 25 form, beyond which U is all open or a void space, all of which lays northof eighty degrees latitude. A POLAR GAP. For illustration, let the reader turn facing the north, so that the righthand will be to the east, and the left to the west; let N. represent the landof Greenland, Wl K. the north Georgian Islands or land, and B. the PolarGap that was broken down by the flood, and U. elevated land on the west-ern coast of Greenland -it at the time of theflood, after the water had covered all the land except the tops of the moun-tains, when the tides began to increase on the Earth, that they, coming incontact with these mountains in their western course, and by which Itsirs would be turned north-west into the pole in overwhelming fioodiinto the inner world, thereby breaking down an immense gap, and formin ga channel of water by which a ship might pass to the inner world, were itnot checked with ice. The variations of magnetic attraction west to this point, then east,p

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