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when the surface had begun to dry, the foot-marks impresse 
it would remain a considerable time quite disti t and 
on it 
well defined. Now, supposing the stormy monsoon again 
imprinted on it. Let the monsoon be now supposed to con- 
tinue during the whole course of a dry summer: Fresh lay- 
ers of sand would be drifted, pure at first, but mingled again 
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siti? ages, what was originally sand would be converted, 
where such incontrovertible proofs, would at last, by the 
submersion of the universal deluge, be buried under its pres- 
ent covering of soil— Dr. Brewster’s Jour. for April, 1828. 
The following jeu d’esprit from Newton’s Journal for April 1828, may 
amuse our réaders, without invalidating the very interesting discovery to 
which it alludes.—Ed. of this Journal. 
Fossil Remains.—It will be temembered that the Rev. 
Mr. Buckland distinguished himself a few years ago, by dis- 
covering a cave at Kirkdale, which he proved to be the din- 
ing room of antediluvian hyenas, that had in this retreat 
feasted upon elephants and water-rats, and left nothing but 
the teeth of these tit-bits, just as records of their good living, 
and bones of contention for future naturalists and cosmo- 
gonists. The same ingenious gentleman has lately had the 
Vor. XV.—No. 1. 12 
