Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Wonderful Discovery in the Book of Job: Behemoth and Leviathan, Found to Refer to the Stationary and Self-Propelling, Steam Engines of Our Days
IN this age of wonderful discoveries when the impossible seems to be a thing of the past, and the unknowable but a word which is daily losing its meaning, I. Hope I will not be considered presumptuous for claiming to have discovered, in the Holy Bible, a most extraordinary and exact description 'of our modern steam engine, with details of its various parts and of many of its peculiar characteristics.
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