The day was very cloudy and the sun threw no shadows at all; but the man was satisfied that if the sun had come out and made shadows it could not have made any for him.

Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.

To such as are not bigoted, and are willing to be convinced, they carry a conviction that nothing can ever shake.
If even greater proofs than those I have mentioned are wanted, to satisfy the headstrong and the foolish that this is the genuine centre of the earth, they are here.

The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made.

This can surely be regarded in the light of a settler.