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quakes and other violent agencies. This supp 
the sea and land changed places at the del ee 
been a favorite opinion of naturalists, even 
spe and recent as Cuvier; and it forms the key y stone 
of Mr. Penn’s system. But it happens, that the discovery 
of some brok en hyzna’s bones an a cave at Kirkdale and 
; Bes jong 
Professor Buckland, completely refutes this notion, 
proves that the antediluvian continents were the same 
our present continents. M. Cuvier has had, the candor, 
since the publication of Mr. Buckland’s book, to acknowl- 
edge the incorrectness of his opinion. (Ossemens fossiles, 
2d Edit. vol. 4, pp. 224-486.) Mr. Penn has had—(we 
think our readers, when they shall learn the facts, will call 
it) the obstinacy—to persist in his opinion, and to publisha 
‘4 Supplement” of criticisms on the Kirkdale evidence. 
But more of this hereafter. 
Mr. Penn contends for the most exact adherence to the 
ier < of the scripture. Yet he does not hesitate, to answer 
n purposes, to adopt that very questionable rule of 
ibencenies advanced by Rosenmuller, that ‘ Moses 
speaks according to optical, not physical truth.” He main- 
tains too, that the sun and moon were created on the first 
demiurgic day, although Moses expressly declares they 
were created onthe fourth. He believes too, and attempts 
to abe that only a part of the various species of animals 
, were saved in the ark, in direct contradiction to 
Sissies of Moses, that God commanded Noah “ of 
every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort, shall thou 
brin o the ark.” We state these things, not because 
we have any serious objection te such views, but merely 
to show, that this writer, when occasion demands, can use 
a8 great liberties with the language of scripture as other 
men 
But we will detain ~ readers no longer from the work 
of Professor Bucklan 
he object of this ae as the title page evinces, is to 
exhibit all se important geological evidences of the last 
ont diluvial catastrophe to which our planet has been sub- 
mas ‘or, as it has been recently stated in * foreign Re- 
, to give us the “ geology of the deluge.” (Ed. Rey 
Oct, 18 823.) Much error has existed on this subject, mt 
Cause writers on the deluge have resorted to the seconda . 
