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I shall, in the next place, proceed to notice the few 

 remarks that have been made, relative to the course or 

 direction, in which, it is supposed, these currents may 

 have flowed, and also of the cause. 



In Cuvier's Remarks on the Environs of Paris, he 

 observes, "A marked character of a great irruption 

 from the south east is impressed on the summits, and 

 in the direction of the principal hills." 



Mr. Carew observes, that " the Cornish tinners hold 

 a strong imagination, that in the withdrawing of Noah's 

 flood to the sea, the same took his course from east to 

 west, violently breaking up, and forcibly carrying with 

 it the earth, trees, and rocks, which lay any where 

 loosely, near the upper surface of the ground. To 

 confirm the likelihood of which supposed truths, they 

 do, many times, dig up whole and huge timber trees, 

 which they conceive, at that deluge, to have been over- 

 turned and overwhelmed."* 



Mr. Kirwan has taken a much more enlarged, and 

 extensive view of the subject, and seems to be decided- 

 ly of the opinion, that the various changes, that appear 

 to have taken place upon the surface of the globe, and 

 which are believed to be the result of currents, have 

 been produced by the operation of an " irruption of 

 waters from the southern ocean/ 7 and further, that this 

 irruption of the southern ocean was the cause, or con- 

 sequence of the general deluge or Noatick flood. 



In support of the first part of the proposition, he ob- 

 serves, " This is pretty evident, from such animals as 



* Carew's Survey of Cornwall, 1602, page 7. 



