Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard.
- Howard, Robert, approximately 1812-1854.
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![consumption of water in the interior of the earth, they would at length become empty and ready to receive a larger volume of the explosive vapours, by which the moving powers would be wonderfully in- creased. In this way, it appears that the continents and islands have been formed, by the violent rending of the superficies of the circle of the earth, and hurling its fragments to great distances, throwing it into the confusion in which it at present exists. Thus it appears that some of the land has been hurled from the tropics, into the frigid regions of the north, carrying with it, its waters and its inhabit- ants, who have suddenly become locked up in ice. Accordingly the melting of the northern ice has been observed to disclose the bodies of tropical animals, with all their flesh well preserved, and so it is probable that the bodies of great numbers of animals and men may still remain frozen in the ice, continuing in the same state as that in which they died, and without any decomposition of their flesh. Hence the bones of tropical animals are commonly found on the frozen shores of the north. Ancient historians speak of a great continent Disap- . which formerly extended from the strait of Gibraltar pearance , , and disco- along opposite the coast of Africa, called the very of Atlantis ; this land disappeared, as it is stated, very suddenly, during a terrific earthquake. The oppo- site coasts of South America and of Africa are so wonderfully correspondent in form, as to show that they were certainly once united. It is certain that South America has been torn from the great cavity on the opposite coast of Africa, the projection northward, partly oceu]iying the space now betM'een](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21463992_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
