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pier ones than have heen assigned, the purpose here 

 in view is answered. It is the explanation of ad- 

 mitted transportation, and the rejection of false hy- 

 potheses respecting the causes. 



If the hypothesis of distant transportation has been 

 applied to the case of Monte Bolca, it is already fully 

 answered. Where transportation has been assigned 

 as the cause of the positions of organic bodies which 

 were assumed to have belonged to other climates, the 

 answer to this also needs not be repeated. It is not 

 a case of evidence as to the fact. I may say the same 

 as to the fossil remains of Dalinatia and elsewhere : 

 the fact of transportation is assumed; and the right 

 solution of these cases will be examined in the next 

 section. It has further been attempted to prove the 

 transportation of the bones of land animals found in 

 alluvia, by Deluges, from the presence of petrified 

 remains in the same places. There are two cases of 

 this ; and such a theory is unnecessary for either. 

 These marine remains are often the fragments of orga- 

 nic limestones, parts of the original alluvia in which 

 the bones were deposited : it is a case of accidental 

 contiguity, not of joint transportation. If it had been, 

 the condition of both classes should have been similar. 

 The other case is that of Italy, already explained : it 

 is the occurrence of terrestrial alluvia above marine 

 ones. 



On the Siberian remains, I must dwell somewhat 

 more : especially because this case has been made a 

 foundation for a theory of the earth. These are often, 

 though not always, transported, but under transporta- 

 tions of a far different nature from what has been 

 asserted. Pallas informs us that the bones, skele- 

 tons, and entire carcasses, of the Elephant, Rhinoce- 

 ros, and other large animals, occur near every great 



