which, to say the | 
the ne 
322 Notice and Review of the Religuiae Diluvianae. 
the most surprising, and the only thing of the kind I ever 
witnessed; and many hundred, I may say thousand, seal 
viduals must have contributed their remains to make up 
this appalling mass of the dust of de t seems in peat 
part to be derived from comminuted and pulverized bone ; 
for the fleshy parts of animal bodies produce by their de- 
composition so small a quantity of permanent earthy re- a 
siduum, that we must seek for the origin of this mass prin- : 
cipally in decayed bones. Allowing two cubic feet of dust 
and bones for each individual animal, we shall have in this 
single vault the remains of at least two thousand five hun- 
ears, a number which may have been supplied in 
the space of one thousand years, ae a Mah ae at the rate 
of two and a half per annum.” pp. 1 
he osseous breccia of Gibraltar, Nice ‘Dalmatia, An- 
tibes, Pisa, and other places along the north shore of the 
Mediterranean, oceurrin ng in fissures in limestone, is the last 
oped, since the last general diluvial catastrophe whieh; our 
anet has experienced. But in a recent edition of hus 
grand work on fossil remains, he anon this opinion, 
and adopts coat of Mr. Buckland, viz. that this breecia was 
consolidated in the antediluvian ages, and is referable to 
the same epoch with the breccia and diluvium conte 
bones in the English and G — caves and fissures. 
aries 
quest which every. geologist. will eagerly put, | 
any Bios of the like kind does oecur in other qu 
the globe. We have felt a deeper i meee in ask 
er our own country furnishes any su tances. but W 
have not had an oppor gunity jane he pt essure of other 
avocations, to examine as many of our public sooreols and 
e works of travellers, as we could have wished, on this 
point. We think, however, that we have found some e facts 
east, rr render i it extremely pro 
jean caves contain the same ovidens 
| that 
