ee. of the Reliquiae Diluviance. 32] 
ces as show them to be of postdiluvian origin. We have 
_ already noticed the female skeleton discovered at Pavi- 
land: and human bones occur in six other caves in Eng- 
Jand—all of which, however, are hoe by the author to 
have been deposited since the deluge. Indeed we think 
it quite clear, that the records of ohgseloey. do not ee a 
single instance of a ne, of origin 
The Gaudaloupe specimen MOahiee s Theory of the Earth, 
___-—p. 235,) seemed at first to be a pretty strong case: but 
a 3 believe geologists all agree in reckowing 1 it a ee 
an ee on, Scheuchzer’ s celebrated “homo diluvii 
Ely by: ‘Mr. wrorbaacea in ce Anaals of Philos sophy for Janua- 
ry 1823, of human bones discovered in the valley of Els- 
ter, in Saxony, is not perhaps so clearly referable to an 
epoch posterior to the deluge, although this is the er ee 
Opinion: of naturalists. The instance described by } 
_ water, in the second volume of this Journal, of aca 
= bones found deep in the earth in Ohio, needs to have the 
juestion better settled than it now is, whether they really 
_ oecur in diluvium or alluvium,, before we can refer m t 
an antediluvian epochs 
A very remarkable fact is insite by Mr. Beickisad. con- 
~ cerning the cave at Kuhloch, in fee gies be Wee ve it in 
_his own words. ee 
“Tt is literally true, Hae sabe siivte cavern, (the size 
been again and | again d ug over, in search of Bath 
5, “whieh it still sowthins jolene Bk though in 
a is 1 ereat from: that 
: ete properly « sting. 2 er th 
“ ae tren ra cnt under die finger into a 
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