3f REMARKS ON THE PROBABLE DATE 



against the cave at Kirkdale being antediluvian is 

 of a geological nature. Supposing the fossil lime- 

 tone in which the cave is situated, to have been 

 produced at the deluge mentioned by Moses be ad- 

 mitted, the point is decided. If that which is cal- 

 led the secondary rock, contain ing organic remains, 

 had no existence before the deluge, there could 

 have been no cave for the Hyaenas to inhabit. 

 . That the fossil limestone is of recent formation, 

 appears clear from the account given by Moses in 

 the first Chapter of the Book of Genesis, in which 

 we read that God made the Earth and finished it 

 and pronounced it good, before he made e ither ve- 

 getables or animals ; that he made vegetables be- 

 fore he formed the animal kingdom, and that 

 animals, man excepted, were the last part of his 

 works. He made the earth and stocked it with ve- 

 getables, and then his plastic hand formed the fishes 

 of the sea, the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the 

 field. If the earth was finished, before the vege- 

 table and animal kingdoms were created, neither 

 wood, nor the exuviae of fishes, nor the remains of 

 animals, could have entered into the formation, of 

 the primitive rock, because they had no existence 

 till after its formation. In the rock at Kirkdale, 

 and in all the limestone rock in this district, there 

 are vegetable and animal remains in abundance, 

 which, compared with the account of Moses, proves 

 the recent formation of that rock, and constrains us 



of them at the bottom of the care, and from other cir- 

 cumstances they couM not hare been washed in here, but 

 are the result of a long and regular residence of hyaeuai* 



