The World Before the Deluge

The World Before the Deluge is a book by Louis Figuier. The book is newly edited and revised by H. W. Bristow, of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and carries 235 illustrations. The contents list names, among others, General Considerations, Consideration of Fossils, Chemical and Nebular Hypotheses of the Globe, and Eruptive Rocks.

The text says the poor turtle, which dragged itself along the silent shores of the primitive seas, has bequeathed to learned posterity the image and impression of a part of its body. The text says there are blocks of sandstone with distinct impressions of drops of rain which had fallen upon sea-shores of the ancient world. The text says the Coral Rag is so called from the fact that the limestone of which it is chiefly composed consists, in part, of an aggregation of considerable masses of petrified Corals. The text says that in the estuary of the Clyde, canoes and other works of art have been exhumed, and assigned to a recent period.