Accumulations of surface-matter are astonishingly rapid.
Professor Newton estimates that 400,000,000 meteors fall to the
earth annually. These add enormous quantities of matter to the
earth, but do not, of course, account for all surface growth and
changes. Modern London is built on the site of Roman London,
but the ancient city is seventeen feet lower than the modern.
The Jerusalem streets that Jesus walked through are twenty feet
lower down than the streets of Jerusalem of to-day. One of the
most interesting resorts in that city, in the time of Christ,
was the pool of Bethsaida. Recently work being done by the
Algerian monks has laid bare a large tank cut in the solid rock
thirty feet deep.--_Public Opinion._
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