ARCHAIA.

OB,

STUDIES OF THE COSMOGONY AND

NATURAL HISTORY

OF THE

HEBREW SCRIPTURES.

BY J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.G.S.,
PRINCIPAL OF M'GILL COLLEGE, AUTHOR OF " ACADIAN GEOLOGY," &C.

"The two sciences (Theology and Geology) may conspire,

not by having any part in common, but because, though
widely diverse in their lines, both point to a mysterious
and invisible origin of the world.”—WHSWELL.

Montreal:

B. DAWSON & SON.

London:

SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO.

1860.

Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament, in

the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by B. DAWSON & SON, in the office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada.

JOHN LOVELL, PRINTER, ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

GODLEIAL

3 MAY:937

IBRARY

то

His Excellency the Right Hon. Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart.,

GOVERNOR GENERAL OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, ETC.

AS A PATRON OF CANADIAN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE, WHO GRACES THE HIGHEST POSITION IN BRITISH AMERICA BY HIS PERSONAL QUALITIES AS A STATESMAN, A SCHOLAR, AND A MAN OF SCIENCE,

This work is dedicated,

IN TESTIMONY OF THE MOST SINCERE RESPECT, AND OF GRATITUDE

FOR PERSONAL KINDNESS,

By the Author.