theories of some geologists. He is, indeed, very scornful about
"this magnificent pile of conjectures," and points out that the advocates of glacial action had to bring in the Deluge after all. He himself has to bring in the ice, after his explanations of the forces of the Deluge. If he has demolished a set of "weak con- jectures," he has only substituted another conjecture which is probably equally wild and baseless. Mr. Galloway shows more skill in destroying hypotheses than in building them up. And if geologists with one stroke of the pen create a million years, the same simple operation enables him to produce a change in the axis of the earth. And he is quite ready with an hypothesis of an inner globe separated from the outer crust by a liquid envelope, and another of the meteoric origin of chalk and flint. There is a boldness and dash about him which is decidedly amusing.
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