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Month of July 25th 1827 Green River Lake Erie U Canada

Dear Brother
It would seem to you rather amusing to see all the waters of the globe
and all the loose materials that are scattered over its surfaces; all start at once
and impelled by an Extension Attraction over the surface of the earth weaning
down the tops of mountains and filling up immense valleys forming ridges of fine earth, sand gravel and large rocks of great weight intermixed without order carrying
primitive substances from there native places and depositing them where they are not known.

Such would be the consequences should a comet pass so near the earth as to
attract these substances; and that one has passed over this part of the earth appears evident from numerous circumstances and phenomena.

David Thomas says in his remarks on the deluge that " In considering such aston-
ishing appearances we become satisfied that these ought not be ascribed to the earth's attraction simply restoring the waters to a level. We believe indeed that the
most extraordinary tides swept over this country but the ridges which were formed
period give not their arrangement to water'[alone]". Many one so sharp even at
this day as barely to admit a foot path on the summit. Fine earth and gravel
rounded stones and rocks of great weight are intermined without order and we have
frequently observed in these piles surrounded by different substances, bodies of ?
which have apparently been removed entire"

"It is well known that ponderous substances in a state of minute division may be
suspended in fluid. The difference is the removal of water of one cubic foot of sand
and of a sand stone of the same weight will be instantly evident. In small bodies the superficies is great ? proportion to the solid content. The surrounding fluid comes more immediately in contact by proximity of attraction the general pressure to the
center with increase of magnitude however there is not a proportionate increase of
surface so internal parts are more distant from the contact and the consequent
attraction of the fluid and inadequately supported the solid falls to the bottom.

With these principles in view the removal of large rocks by the simple pressure of
water will not be admitted. On the principle of a foreign attraction however the
explanation of these appearances is clear and consistent. Every loose substance on
the surface of the earth would lifted or drawn along and the rock which has been
fastened down by gravitation receiving a new and opposite impulse would become
as obedient as feenignious sand to the magnet. The particles of clay would keep pace withe coarser materials of the hills and the great Rock at Montesuma. Estimates at 3000 cubic feet move along with the sand that supports it.

The great extent of this deluge is also favorable to our exposition of the subject
its here in deed one variable and in some small distinct scarcely perceptible but a
wide extent of country bears unequivocable marks of its progress and we feel a assured that future observations will attend the limits of these discoveries.

We have read no author of recent date who has attempted to account for these
phenomena except Dr. Drake. His remarks are interesting but the sphere of his
observations was too limited to favor a just conclusion. From him we learn that
"these fragments of primitive rocks are said to be scattered extensively over the state of Ohio, the Indiana Territory and Kentucky." He also remarks, "The older
alluvious are composed of sand, gravel and water worn pebbles covered from two
to six feet deep with a bed of yellowish loam. "The upper table in the town of
Cincinnati is of this kind. Vegetable substances chiefly of the decaying remnants
of trees have been found in different parts of various depths from twenty to thirty feet. The beds of same tree lie in most parts at considerable depths and have
an oblique or water like stratification."

Dr. Drake has suggested that the granite of the Ohio country arrived from the mouth
We have shown that the native stories of this country have been regularly carried in
the same direction, we have shown that the primitive rocks to the south vary in color from those of the same species in this district. We have believed that ours were detached from stra-