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tinues Dr. Young, " there is a seam composed chiefly 

 of oyster- shells, about four or five inches thick, ex- 

 tending for many miles along the coast, being pre- 

 sent wherever the marlstone beds appear, and reach- 

 ing far into the interior, where it is seen in the 

 front of the Cleveland Hills. The shells in this 

 seam are chiefly single valves, and many of them are 

 water-worn, and all of them appear to have floated 

 into their present position, for the shells must have 

 drifted together to form this singular and extensive 

 stratum."* Indeed, it is infinitely more easy to ac- 

 count for the formation of the limestone-strata by 

 supposing them to be drifts of detached corals, shell- 

 fish, and various bony remains, than by supposing 

 them to be the workmanship of any animals which 

 lived on the spot ; for then the exact conformity in 

 the arrangement of these strata with regard to other 

 strata is accounted for, as well as the absence of the 

 irregularities and other peculiarities of coral-reefs 

 and oyster-beds. Nay, it is even easier to account 

 for the presence of the calcareous remains of the 

 higher animals which are found in alluvial deposits, 

 as in the cave at Kirkdale and elsewhere, by drifts 

 than by any other theory. In all these so-called 

 dens, the bones of many beasts of prey are found 

 together, in company with the bones of other ani- 

 mals. The bones of the hyaena preponderate at 

 Kirkdale, and those of the bear at Gailenreuth ; but 

 along with these are the bones of lions and tigers 

 and other carnivorous animals. How, then, without 

 a miracle, could the animals to which these bones 



* Op. cit. p. 15. 



