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mighty a result, (the formation of ieibles and bowlders,) 
and we must assign this operation to the more recent peri- 
eds of the prevalence of the great chuotic deluge, whose 
#xistence is distinctly recorded in the first chapter of Gen- 
Asis, and equally admitted by all geologists.” 
[t was a point of considerable importance with Mr. Buck- 
land, to show, that geology — evidences of the inun- 
dation of high mountains. For it was the opinion of Cuvi- 
er, and other eminent naturalists, in opposition to the scrip- 
tural statement, that the highest parts of the earth were not 
covered by the deluge, since fossil remains had been found 
only in the lower regions of the globe. Against such a sup- 
position the author arrays the following facts, which seein to 
put the question at rest. “Ist. The blocks of granite 
which have been transported from ie heights of Mont 
Blanc to the Jura Mountains, could not have been moved 
from their parent mountain, which is the highest in Europe, 
had not that mountain been below the level of the water b 
which they were sotransported.” 2, “ The Alps and Car- 
pathians, and all the other mountain regions I have ever 
_ Visited in Europe, bearin the form of their component hills, 
_ the same evidence of having been modified by the force of 
Water, us do the hills of the lower regions of the earth ;” 
d we think we may add the same from the testimony of 
travellers, concerning the mountains of America, and other 
quarters of the globe.) “and in their valleys also, where 
there was space to afford it a lodgement, I have always 
found diluvial gravel of the same nature and origin with 
at of the plains below, and which can be clearly distin- 
Suished from the postdiluvian detritus of mountain tor- 
rents or rivers.” a Here Mr. B. adduces several facts, 
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temains at high: ri Pa The bones of the mastodon are 
found near Santa Fe de Bogota, seven thousand eight hun- 
dred feet above the sea; and in the kingdom of Quito, at 
an elevation of seven thousand two hundred feet, near the 
Voleano of Imbaburra. And recently t have i 
covered in Central Asia, in the Hynitley® mountains, the 
They were sent the last year (1822) to 
Capt. W. 5. Webb, who procured them 
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‘Some of them , concerning the occurrence of organic — 
bones of horses and deer. and of bears we add, on the au- oe 
soot of the Quarterly Review, sixteen thousand feet — 
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