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to be rising, probably in the same ratio as the Arctic regions 

 on the Old Continent. 



Page 96, the human bones first discovered in England 

 were in fissures of lime rock : they went to mend the high- 

 way, and no investigation by competent persons took place 

 until long after. A similar fate attended the discovery of 

 a completely fossilized human body at Gibraltar, in 1748. 

 The fact is related in a manuscript note, inserted in a copy 

 of the dissertation on the antiquity of the earth, by the 

 Rev. James Douglass, read at the Royal Society, May 12, 

 1785. The volume belonged to the late Rev. Vyvyan 

 Arundel, while he was still at Exeter College, Oxford, and 

 the note, signed J. W., is written on paper, by the water 

 mark indicating about the year 1 790. In substance it re- 

 lates, that while the writer was himself at Gibraltar, some 

 miners employed to blow up rocks, for the purpose of rais- 

 ing batteries, about 50 feet above the level of the sea, on 

 the higher ground, near the Old Mole, they discovered an 

 appearance of a human body, which impatient because the 

 officer to whom notice was sent of the object, did not come 

 to witness it they blew up. It was reported to have been 

 eight feet and a half long. Several of the pieces were taken 

 up, and among them part of a thigh bone, " with flesh, and 

 I thought an appearance of veins, all in a state of perfect 

 petrifaction, as hard as marble itself ; and in the solid part 

 of the same stone a sea shell." It is evident, that if this 

 body was fossilized by the infusion of stalactite matter, it 

 must still have been of most remote antiquity. 



Page 97-103. We refer to Mr. LyelPs account of the 

 human remains brought from South America, where, among 

 others, he notices a skull, taken from among a great number 

 of other remains, out of a sandstone rock, now overgrown 



