EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. CHRONOLOGY. THE first great epocha in history is the flood; the next of importance is the establishment of the Roman power, as represented by the standard-bearer; the next is the redemption of mankind by the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross; the last is the propagation of the Koran by Mahomet, the period from which most of the Asiatic nations date events. Britannia looking up to the cross, alludes to the fact, that England was the first nation that adopted the reformed religion founded in the truth of Holy Scripture. |