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those fissures and in the caverns also ; because, in 

 this too, there was, apparently, a zoological system to 

 be supported. This, again, is generalizing without 

 facts, and without correct reasoning. 1 have shown 

 that this might happen, or ought to happen ; and it 

 has proved so, in the case of the horse, the ox, and 

 others. And that I may dismiss the whole of these 

 hypotheses at once, it is not true that the remains in 

 the alluvia are not also found in caverns. The Ele- 

 phant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Ox, and others, 

 occur in both : so that whatever diluvian speculations 

 were to be founded on this disproved statement, must 

 be abandoned. 



The Caverns and their remains have recently at- 

 tracted so much popular attention, under that love of 

 the marvellous which so often loses sight of science, 

 and of truth also, that I can refer, without difficulty, 

 to volumes in abundance, those who consider that all 

 Geology is comprised in such a pursuit as this. A 

 short statement would not satisfy them ; and the 

 concern of Geology with these facts is very small in- 

 deed. 



They have been found in Germany and in England, 

 in many places ; near Gailenreuth, Bauman, Sharz- 

 fells, Kloeterhoele, Glucksbrun, and in other situa- 

 tions, in the former ; and, in the latter, near Ply- 

 mouth, Buringdon, Swansea, Llandebie, Torbay, at 

 Kirkdale, and in other places, for all which Dr. 

 Buckland's ample and minute works, especially, can 

 be consulted. In these caverns, always open in some 

 manner, (though it is plain that if filled more or less 

 with earth, and broken into through the rock, that 

 opening might not always be easily found,) the bones 

 are more or less entangled in loose alluvial matter, 

 generally of a fine texture, and also among calca- 



