qui ¢ Diluvianac. 325 
mixed with the animal dust, ec Raging less prolific of 
_ salt petre—and what the ‘ k dirt,” but pure animal 
dust? ? We regret that he h 
of the two kinds. Am 
advances will then only be made in the Science of nature 
when the dread of prolixity shall be overco 
In Long’s Expedition (Vol. 1. p. 33) it is A. that the 
party visited a cave in the banks of the Ohio, not far from 
Shawneetown, called “ Cave Inn,” or * House of Na- 
ture.” ‘In this cave, it is said, great numbers of large 
bones were sometime ago found, but we saw no remains of 
any thing of this kin 
From these facts, we infer, that in one or two important 
res) _ the caves of North America, and South Africa 
are analogous to those of Europe—certainly they are 
_alike we think in having been inhabited at a remote period 
by animals : and it is at least probable, that in America 
id Africa those animals were antediluvian. We are dis- 
ed therefore to extend to those quarters of the globe 
e following important conclusion, confined by Mr. Buck- 
ee 
Another important —? arising directly from 
inhabited caves, and ossi ferous fissures, the existence 
end generally over 
na nged 
Buxnpé,i is, that the present sea and land have. 
place: but that the antediluvian surface of at least 
io vemisphere was the same with the 
Present ; since those tracts of dry land in which we find 
Ossi iS s must have been dry a 
the 
Mere did ass ‘ithe eee any aa 
4». fates occupied respectively by | i 
‘ writers of i authority have conceived t 
atel eded the last great geological revolution, by an 
eo transient inundation w which has affected the 
abit. «pe 162.4 So, 
e relative situa- 
