332 Notice and Review of the Reliquiae Dilumanae. 
from the Chinese Partars of Daba. They are obtained 
from the avalanches, and of course come from a region of 
perpetual frost. The natives believe them to have fallen 
from the clouds, and to be the bones of genii. In this 
opinion they do not greatly differ from our English pro- 
genitors ; who, not many centuries ago, thought the remains | 
of the mammoth, tiger, rhinoceros, &c. to be we bones af 
antediluvian giants, or even of the fallen angels? 
Vhe conclusion to which we are brought by such facts as 
these, concerning the last g 
planet ~ experienced, “ean scarcely be better stated in 
in the words of Moses: ‘‘And the waters prevailed exceed- 
ingly et “pre earth; and all “ve bigh hills that were un- 
der the whole heaven were covered.” 
The third and last proof of diluvial action exhibited by the 
work before us, is found in the excavation of vallies. 
is intimately connected with the ecco argument; and 
Mr. Buckland treats of them nesther ee. he has 
sur must 
been derived from the solid strata; and it is quite as obvi- 
ous that the process by which this diluvial detritus was 
brought into its present form, must have produced vallies. 
ndeed, every body who looks at the innumerable vallies 
existing on the earth’s surface, imputes them at once to the 
action of running water. But the general belief is, that 
existing streams, avalanches and lakes, bursting their bar- 
riers, are sufficient to account for all their phenomena, and 
not a few ae especially those of the Huttoniao 
school, at whose head is gi. geal canes have tilkre- — 
__ cently been of this core So lo: o, how the 
time of Cateott, this subject was ably Bendilod, alt r 
views have been much neglected till of late. But - 
very clear to almost every man, who impartially examines 
the facts in regard to existing vallies, that the eauses DOW 
in action, mentioned above, are altogether inadequate, fe 
~ their production; nay, that such a ee would in- 
©, Volve a. ‘Ade impossibility. We do not believe e that 
~ one tho i 
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