On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface. By Sir James 

 Hall, Bart. Pr. R. S. Ed. & F.R. S. Lond. 



PART II. 



BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DILUVIAN FACTS IN THE NEIGHBOUR- 

 HOOD OF EDINBURGH. 



\Read June 8. 1812.] 



IF such tremendous agents did in reality exert their influence 

 in the Alps, it is not conceivable that other countries, si- 

 tuated lower, and composed of materials much more frail, 

 could have been spared. We hear in fact of similar traces, 

 more or less distinct, in all quarters of the globe. From the 

 bones of animals, natives of the hottest climates, which are 

 found over a frozen region of vast extent in the Russian em- 

 pire, Pallas * concludes, that an enormous torrent had trans- 

 ported their carcases across the ridge of Tartary. 



Vol. VII. Y On 



• Observations sur la Formation des Montagnes, p. 71. Nov. Cora. Petr. 

 torn. XVII. p. 576. 



