1 JULY 1837, Page 19

Paying from Travels, we have three volumes on our table

which may be classt.d under the head of SCIENCE.

Views of the Architecture of the Heavens. Br J. P. NICHOL, LL. D., F. H. S.E., Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.

/Wm and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations, bath of the Fact and Period of the Mosaic Deluge. 13y FORGI: FAIRitoLNE, The Scattish Ale- Brewer. By W. H. ROBLILTS.

01' these, the first and last appear to have sufficient merit to re- quire a fuller notice than we can give them now. Mr. FAIR- noLMS'S Mosaic Deluge is a nut for the geologists to crack before it can be fitted for the popular palate. Many of' the most ac- complished geologists question the universality of the Mosaic' Deluge, and think the sacred text must be read with limitations. Mr. FAIRHOLDIE undertakes to prove from physical facts, the Isle of Wight being one of them, that the Deluge was universal, aid that MOSES and Fatal-1°1.ms are right awl the geologists wrong

But a more bitter pill is in store for them. Everybody knows, that, according to the received view of geological facts, the world has passed through many stages, and taken many years, whether thousands or millions it matters not, to reach its present condi- tion. Our author, by much meditating and the observation of many things—rivers and vallMs, lakes and waterfalls, continents and islands—has come to a different conclusion ; and shows, to his own satisfaction, that the pretended laws of geology are vain wisdom all, and that there is no other way of accounting for the present state of the world than by receiving the Mosaic account of the Creation.