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rence of an universal deluge, it must require a strange de- 
gree of scepticism to doubt the fact, even if the Mosaic 
istery were not in existence. Include that history among 
the proofs, and they absolutely rise to a moral demon- 
stration. 
It will be seen by the preceding analysis, that the work 
of Mr. Buckland has contributed essentially to enlarge the 
boundaries of geological science. The following are brief- 
lythe principal points he has been the first to establish. 
irst, he has proved, in opposition to the prevailing 
opinion of modern geologists, that the sea and land did 
not change places at the deluge. 
Secondly, he has shown, that the remains of tropical 
animals, found in the diluvium of high northern latitudes, 
were not drifted thither from remote climates, but that the 
animals actually lived and diedin the regions where their 
remains are found. 
This discovery makes it almost certain, we think, that 
a great and a sudden change in the climate of northern 
latitudes took place at the time of the deluge. And if so, 
we see why it is, that perpetual frost covers those parts of 
the mountains of Ararat, where the Mosaic history repre- 
sents the olive as growing, whose leaf was brought back 
the dove sent by Noah out of the ark. 
Thirdly, Mr. Buckland has presented us with a detailed 
account of the habits of antediluvian animals. e believe 
most sanguine geologist never anticipated so much 
from his science, on this point, as this work exhibits. We 
not only learn their existence, but seem to be introduced 
among them, and observe their mode of life, whether in 
dens or roaming in the forests. It is chiefly comparative 
anatomy that has achieved such triumphs ; and we cannot 
but anticipate from this science still more brilliant results, 
when we hear a man of scrupulous accuracy speaking with 
confidence of the “ teeth of water rats,” “ the left ulna of 
a lark” of the “ coracoid process of the right scapula ofa 
duck,” inhabitants of the antediluvian world. 
Mr. Buckland bas also made it more satisfactory to our 
mind than any previous writer, that man did not inhabit 
those regions of the world that have hitherto been scien- 
tfically examined, previous to the deluge : and we are 
therefore directed in search of human remains, to that 
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