The Vedic fathers of geology

24 Tur Vepic Faruers or Gronocy.

mations, appears simply marvellous, owing not only to its great antiquity, but also to its correct demonstration, even according to, and trom the stand-point of, the discoveries of modern researches and the accepted opinions of eminent Geologists of the West, who had ‘taken up the subject only over two centuries -before. This, therefore, I shall notice in a separate chapter, as the Western Geologists have vendered valuable assistance to the canse of the Seience of Geolooy, and have developed it with untiring zeal, great energy, and commendable perseverance, after giving to the Reader a brief idea about the antiquity of the Yedas from the stand-point of geology, in the next chapter.