Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Vast continents have been inundated; seas have usurped the dominion of the earth. At length retiring, these waters have left striking proofs of their presence; the marine vestiges present in the bowels of fertile lands we now inhabit - subterraneous fires have opened to themselves the most frightful volcanoes, frightful reminders of what might have been. B. But when history should be silent, would not our own reflection on what passes under our eyes be sufficient to convince us, that all parts of our globe have been, and following the course of things, will necessarily be again violently agitated in a state of conflagration? C. What, then, must have been the fears of man, who beheld the entire nature armed against his peace, menacing with destruction his very abode? D. The traditions and annals of all people recall, even at this day, melancholy events, physical disasters, dreadful catastrophes, which had the effect of spreading universal terror among our forefathers. E. The elements have thus, at various times, disputed among themselves the empire of our globe; evidenced by those vast heaps of wreck, those stupendous ruins spread over its surface.