And the “ Great Carolina Marl Bed.” II 
fusion of ice at either pole,” he says: “ Then it was 
that all the plans of Nature were reversed ; complete 
islands of floating ice, loaded with white bears ran 
aground among the palm trees of the Torrid Zone, 
and the elephants of Africa were tossed amidst the 
fir groves of Siberia, where their larger bones are still 
found to this day.” This theory might have been 
properly accepted by Judge Drayton and his cotem- 
poraries, for at that day but little was known of such 
things; but there is no excuse for a writer in a 
monthly journal, published in this the ‘‘ Telegraphic 
age,’ who repeats these “old time stories.” These 
bones have nothing to do with Phosphate-rocks, for 
just such teeth and bones are found throughout the 
salt-licks of Kentucky, the swamps of New York, 
Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama and Florida, and 
in very many parts of England; also, on the Conti- 
nents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and in places too 
where there is no Phosphate-rock. 
And finally, the same author, as if to settle the 
whole matter and put aside all doubts as to the dis- 
covery at that early time of the Phosphate-rocks, 
writes thus: “ By reference, however, to the VIEW oF 
SouTH Carona, by JUDGE JoHN Drayton, page 40, 
there will be seen drawings of six different shapes of 
Phosphatic rocks.” 
Satisfied as soon as we read it that this was the 
greatest error of all, we immediately procured the book 
from the Charleston Library, and after carefully search- 
ing the whole volume, especially the plate at page 40, 
we found no drawings of vocks nor of anything like 
