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 More Recent Systems, -----------41 



Diversities of all the Systems, ---------44 



Causes of these Differences, ---------46 



Nature and Condition of the Problem, ------ 46 



Progress of Mineral Geology, ---------49 



Importance of Fossil Remains in Geology, 51 



High importance of the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds, - - 53 

 Small probability of discovering new Species of large Qua- 

 drupeds, - -->*;* -~ ->-- - - - - - - - - - 56 



Inquiry respecting the Fabulous Animals of the Ancients, 69 

 Difficulty of determining the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds, 82 

 Principle by which this determination is effected, -*Ky*ri 83 

 View of the general Results of these Researches, - - - 94 

 Relations of the Species of Fossil Animals, with the Strata 



in which they are found, - - - iOiciwiaaO adl.io J9 95 

 Proofs that the extinct Species of Quadrupeds are not Va- 

 rieties of the presently existing Species, - - - - - 102 



Proofs that there are no Fossil Human Bones, - - - - 114 



Physical Proofs of the Newness of the present Continents, 121 

 Additions of Land by the action of Rivers, - - i. Uivl 123 

 Progress of Downs,- - - - - - iur<M. 'to auiJ&frtTo'* ^133 



Peat-mosses and Slips, - <mift w .*'ftit3 1 rualu^nu* ai-136 

 The History of Nations confirms the Newness of the Con- 

 tinents, , - - - - 137 



The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations 



'. J; is not supported by History, -------- 149 



The Astronomical Monuments left by the Ancients do not 

 r bear the excessively remote Dates which have been at- 

 tributed to them, - - - ^;}!ife4avU 1* dr* - -201 



