John Ruskin 
Deucalion Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Why not rather to Eve, or at least to one of the wives of Lamech, and to Noah? Asks, perhaps, the pious modern reader.