Notice of Hayden’s Geological Essays. 51 
Mr. Hayden mentions similar facts as existing in a very 
striking manner, and degree, on the Connecticut river, and 
on several of its branches; the accumulations of pebbles 
being on those banks, and in those places, which corres- 
pond with the idea of a current from the north and east, and 
with a consequent deposit of alluvial spoils, in a peep 
ners is south or west in relation to the current. 
r instances are described, by the author, which, in 
connexion with those already mentioned, go far towards 
making out his case; but, in order to its full establishment, 
would it not be necessary, to enter into a very exten- 
sive induction of particulars, regerding, especially, the great 
alluvial formations of this country, and to derive those facts 
from as mai meen pert, sais »ssib. le, of ‘the flat bons of 
the southern states? — 
The general cause of an cucenis: Mr. ‘Maydes: ‘con- 
cludes to be the deluge of Noah. While no one will ob- 
ject to the propriety of ascribing very many, probably most 
of our alluvial features, to that catastrophe, we conceive 
that neither Mr. Hayden, nor any other man, is bound to 
prove the immediate physical cause of that vindictive in- 
Gicsion: 
the fusion of the polar i ice, as imagined by St. 
Pie re, nor the subsidence of nents as conjectured by 
Dr. "Clarke, are necessary to account for an event of this 
nature, when it is stiches i the his histhey which records it, 
to the immediate power of the —— who (although in 
this instance, rains are named, and rraneous waters al- 
luded to, as the immediate oe penis) never haaiacn: for a 
to ane n end. 
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sphere: ‘xan eepornape oa it peeeer which 
