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fying the air to so great a degree as to occasion the loss of life to objects within the medium of its immediate action, or do other considerable damage. سیستمهای مستعس DIAM.(){SUE HV. : ) Of the Earth, as composed of Land and Water. Pup, For what purpose was the earth created ? Tut. To be inhabited; and millions. of living creatures are rendered happy, in and on every part of it. Pap. On what do you suppose the earth to stand? - - "Tut. It does not stand upon any thing—if it did, how could it nove? Hear the poetical language of the ancients: “ He hangeth the earth upon nothing.” Pup. Does this globe, then, which we inhabit, continually hang, and move in space? Tut. Certainly it does, as well as the other pla: nets. Pup. What at amazing power must it be which created them, which first set them in motion, and which still keeps them in their orbits! Tut, “God made the earth by his power—he established . the world by his wisdom—and stretched out the heavens.” : - Pup. Of what does the Gartb consist ? . . Tott. Of land and water. . . " -