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Touraine, are well known for their bulk ; as are 

 those of Grignon, Issy, Passy, Chaumont, Villers 

 Coterets, and other places. Immense beds are thus 

 formed of Miliolites alone. Similar facts occur in 

 Egypt and Syria, in Persia and India, and, in reality* 

 in every country that has been accurately examined. 

 If other shells intrude into such colonies, or if many 

 are intermixed in one, the geological inferences are 

 scarcely affected ; since repose and length of time 

 are equally proved. Ages must have passed before 

 these enormous accumulations could have taken place ; 

 and we can sometimes form loose conjectures, at least, 

 respecting this time, by attending to the increase of 

 living beds of shell-fish and the deposits in lakes. If 

 this fact proves repose, it would have been unne- 

 cessary to say that it is inconsistent with diluvian 

 movements, had not the most recent of our observers 

 asserted such motions even in the most decided cases 

 of this nature. It is childish to repeat, that facts like 

 this are irreconcileable to any precipitation of rocks 

 from solution. 



However true the transportation of fossil remains, 

 through the action of water, may be, it has been often 

 asserted to have happened where it never occurred, 

 and has thus formed one of the most troublesome fal- 

 sities in Geology ; impeding the discovery of truth in 

 almost as great a degree as any of the hypotheses 

 which have been invented, and, above all, where such 

 actions have been referred to the Mosaic deluge. 

 And thus have other deluges been invented to explain 

 what demanded no such solution. 



To the remarks just made, proving that the living 

 animals had been preserved where they died, I may 

 add those facts which are often but repetitions of what 

 has preceded. These arc, the integrity of tender 



