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in the same cave with hyaonas and other carnivorous animals. 

 But these German bones are never rolled or triturated, and there- 

 fore cannot have been brought from a distance by the waters. But 

 water can carry on its surface as well as drive along its channel, 

 and bodies can be moved before, as well as after they are reduced 

 to skeletons. 



We may add, that if naked skeletons had been transported by 

 being driven along by the waters over the bed of the tumultuous 

 ocean, it is hardly possible, but that all of them must have been 

 crumbled to dust before they could have travelled to any considera- 

 ble distance. In short, comparing all the evidence, we may safely 

 conclude, that " the same cause that floated from a southern 

 latitude the solitary alligator, found within the limestone rock in 

 Dorsetshire, floated also, from the same quarter, the consociated 

 elephants and hycenas, found within a limestone rock in Yorkshire ; 

 and that the same operation that kneaded shells into the limestone 

 rocks of Portland, plunged both the individual and the compound 

 body in the limestone paste, in whose indurated substances, they 

 have at length been severally discovered :" and " the concentrat- 

 ing weight and contractile force of the limestone, while drying, 

 settling, and consolidating its substance, appears completely to 

 account at once, both for the narrow space into which the mul- 

 titudinous exuvire have become compressed, and for the necessary 

 consequence of the bones, previously shattered and fractured in 

 their transport, being more extensively and variously split and 

 broken to pieces." And such is the state of the fossil remains in 

 the close and solid strata of Paris, and so Cuvier accounts for 

 them, without the agency of " hycenas to break them up in order to 

 extract the brains and marrow." 



For our author's answer to Mr. Buckland's conclusions that the 

 phenomena of the Kirkdale Cave decisively establish the fact that 

 the exuviae of the animals found in it, were not driven northwards 

 by diluvian currents from more equatorial regions, but that the 

 animals themselves were inhabitants of antediluvian Britain ;— 

 that a probable change of climate in the northern hemisphere, 

 seems to follow from this circumstance ; as well as the other im- 

 portant consequence, that the present sea and land have not 

 changed places, we must refer our readers to the Supplement itself, 

 lest we should do injustice to its logical precision and force, by 

 attempting to abridge it. From the same motive, we forbear to 

 dwell on his reasoning, to shew that the vertical fissures, in the 

 present surfaces of limestone rocks, together with their caverns, 

 are necessarily post diluvian, with a great mass of powerful argu- 

 ment against the general geological inferences contained in the 

 Rekquice Diluviance, and many minuter details from which those 

 inferences are deduced. 



The following passage, however, is too forcible to be omitted or 



