"Every part of the earth's surface presents unequivocal proofs that the elevation of the bed of the ocean in some places, and the subsidence of the dry land in others, have been, and are still, going on; and that, in truth, the continual changes in the relative position of the land and water, are the effects of laws which the Divine Author of the Universe has impressed on matter, and thus rendered it capable of perpetual renovation:— Art, Empire, Earth itself, to change are doomed; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vail, And gulf's the mountain's mighty mass entombed, And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloomed."
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