336 Nohee and hc ha of the Reliquiae Diluvianae. 
«5. The satire of this gravel, being in part composed 
of the wreck of the neighbouring hills, ‘and partly of frag- 
ments and blocks that have been transported from di 
regions.” 
Beeeites: in this press: many of tien being iden 
gone the smallest process of aninbbscentions ‘Their con- 
dition resembles that of common grave bones, being in so 
recent a state and having undergone so little decay, that 
if the records of history, and the circumstances that attend 
them, did net absolutely forbid such a supposition, we 
should be inclined to attribute them even to a much later 
period than the deluge : and certainly there is in my 
opinion no single fact connected with them that should 
lead us to date their origin from any more spec era.” 
“7. The total impossibility of referrin e of these 
am to the effect of ancient: an rivers, oF 
other causes, that are now, or pe 
been i in action, since the retreat of — 
“8. The analogous occurrence of si nenomena it 
almost all the regions of the world that have hitherto been 
scientifically investigated, presenting a series of facts that 
are uniformly consistent ee the hypothesis of a cons 
peraseous and diluvial o 
“9. The perfect inom and consistency in the cir- 
cumstances of those few changes that now go on, (e. g. the 
formation of ravines and g gravel by mountain torrents ; the 
limited depth and continual growth of peat bogs ; the for- 
-_ mation of tufa, sandbanks, and deltas ; and the ‘filling up of 
lakes, estuaries, and marshes,) with the hypothesis whieh 
_ dates the commencement of all such Operations at a periot 
- not more ancient than that which our received chrono 
ogies assign to the deluge 
_* All these facts, whos considered collectively OF se- 
parately, present such a conformity of proofs, tending to 
establish a recent inundation of the earth, as no geen 
co that have hitherto arisen are in any ways 
at to overrule.” pp. 226, 
Ifto these we add the evidence derived from the fice 
nomena of caves and fissures, and also the traditions — of 
almost every nation and tribe under heaven to the occur: 
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