jae Diluvianae. 165 
od at which the bones of these exti r 
duced into the cave at Kirkdale, 
Notice and Review of the Reti 
ples were intro- 
antediluvian.— 
othesis with many naturalists, 
that the remains of extinct genera and species of the larger 
animals, such as the mammoth and megatherium, were 
drifted by the waters of the deluge from the southern cli- 
mates, where they lived; ‘* but the facts developed in this 
charnel-house of the antediluvian forests of Yorkshire, 
demonstrate that there was a long succession of years in 
which the elephant, rhinoceros and hippopotamus had 
been the prey of the hywnas, which, like themselves, in- 
habited England in the period immediately preceding the 
formation of the dijuvian pravel; and if they inhabited 
this country, it follows as a corollary, that they also inhab- 
ited all those other regions of the northern hemisphere, in 
which similar bones have been found, under precisely the 
same circumstances, not mineralized, but simply in the 
-4i, 
It has been a favorite hypothes 
peat bogs. all conspire to show, that the period of their 
commencement was subsequent to that at which the dilu- 
Vium was formed.”’—p. 42. 
the question which here so naturally presents it- 
self, as to what might have been the climate of the north- 
