334 THE DELUGE. 



of the flcetz-rocks., occasionally occurs in masses, many 

 yards in extent, which individually have a tabular or 

 stratified structure ; but, when viewed on the great scale, 

 appear to be great massive distinct concretions. These 

 massive concretions, with their subordinate tabular struc- 

 tures, if not carefully investigated, are apt to bewilder 

 the mineralogist, and to force him to have recourse to a 

 general system of subsidence or elevation of the strata, 

 in order to explain the phenomena they exhibit. 



NOTE C, p. 13. 

 DELUGE. 



There are many facts, some of which are recorded in 

 the Bible, that are hostile to Cuvier and De Luc's opi- 

 nions stated in the text, viz. that the bed of the ocean 

 was changed at the flood, or last great catastrophe ; and 

 that the land, formerly occupied by animals, was hence- 

 forth given up to fishes and other marine tribes. We 

 are told, for example, that the dove, which was sent 

 forth from the ark, found an olive-tree, whence it 

 plucked a leaf, to carry back to the patriarch, as a proof 

 that the waters of the deluge were subsiding ; and we 

 also find that the Assyrian rivers, which originally 

 marked the situation of Eden, retained the same geo- 

 graphical relations after the earth had been repeopled. 

 The natural history of the fossil organic remains con- 

 tained in alluvial deposits, is also in opposition to the 

 opinion of De Luc. 



