SKETCHES OF CREATION:

A POPULAR VIEW

OF

SOME OF THE GRAND CONCLUSIONS OF THE SCIENCES

IN REFERENCE TO

THE HISTORY OF MATTER AND OF LIFE.

TOGETHER WITH

A STATEMENT OF THE INTIMATIONS OF SCIENCE RESPECTING THE
PRIMORDIAL CONDITION AND THE ULTIMATE DESTINY

OF THE EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

BY ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
AND DIRECTOR OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.