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found at a great depth."* These, and many more, 

 are mentioned, but as nothing is said of the depth at 

 which they are found below the surface of the earth, it 

 is unnecessary to describe them, with a view to the 

 correspondencies, which are observable between them 

 and those of America. 



Were other proofs, of the existence and operations of 

 currents, wanting, I might quote whole pages on the 

 subject of deposites of fossil organick remains of ani- 

 mals and vegetables, that are found in almost every 

 country upon earth, and most of which, it is believed,, 

 have been wafted by currents, and promiscuously de- 

 posited with alluvion, &c. wherever they have been 

 discovered ; but I shall dispense with any remarks on 

 that head, and appeal to the opinions of those whose 

 observations and experience entitle them to the highest 

 credit. 



Among others, Mr. Parkinson makes the following 

 remarks ; " The fact, however, is, that although no 

 (fossil) remains of man are found, the surface of the 

 earth, which is inhabited by man, displays, even at the 

 present day, manifest and decided marks of the mecha- 

 nical agency of violent currents of water* Nor is 

 there a single stratum, of all those which have been 

 mentioned, which ,does not exhibit undeniable proofs 

 of its having been broken, and even dislocated by some 

 tremendous power, which has acted with considerable 

 violence on this planet, since the deposition of the stra- 

 ta even of the last formation."! 



* Rennell's Herodotus, page 514. 



t Parkinson's Organick Remains, Vol. Ill, page 451, 



