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ancient, contain human remains ; they have been found in 

 the Lehm, on the borders of the Rhine, with the remains of 

 the species of fluviatile shells now living in that river : 

 in the alluviums of Krems in Austria, and of Canstadt 

 (in Wurtemberg) ; in North America, in the caverns of 

 Kentucky, and in South America in those of Brazil. 



Human skeletons are found embedded in a modern lime- 

 stone rock, containing shells and corals of the same species 

 as those now living in the adjoining sea at Guadaloupe, in the 

 Antilles (fig. 253) ; and, lastly, human bones have been found 

 by D'Orbigny, in the central plains of South America, on the 

 banks of the Bio-Securi, which flows into the Amazon, in a 

 bed of fine sand mixed with clay, at a depth of eighteen feet 

 from the surface, along with fragments of pottery and other 

 human works.* In all these cases, however, the deposit 

 which contains Man's remains, belongs to a more modern 

 era than the newest sub-apennine stage of the tertiary 

 epoch. 



In casting a retrospective glance over the series of fossil 

 animals which we have thus rapidly reviewed, it will be 

 observed, that we have endeavoured to show that the phy- 

 siological, like the physical laws, have ever been the same, 

 and that they exhibit in clear characters, the wisdom, fore- 

 knowledge, and design of their Great Author. The study of 

 the phenomena which paleontology thus brings before the 

 student, must have a salutary influence on his mind, inas- 

 much as it proves by cumulative evidence, that law, order, 

 and benevolence govern all things animate and inanimate on 

 the Earth as in the Heavens. 



Geology, so far from being opposed to the religion of the 

 Bible, is the only science capable of demonstrating that 

 a -special providence alike directs the fiery vomit of the 

 volcano and the % development of the zoophyte ; it teaches 

 Man that there was a time when no living thing animated 

 the primeval ocean ; that there was a starting point a 

 beginning ; it shows him that the regulating hand of 

 Omnipotence has, through all the immensity of the past, 

 adjusted and maintained the economy of our planet ; that 

 peculiar forms of animal life were created, to perform a 



* D'Orbigny, Cours eleraentaire de Palseontologie, p. 162. 



