150 Notice and Review of the Reliquiae Diluvianae. 
MISCELLANEOUS. | 
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Art. XV.—Notice and Review of the * Reuieutaz Ditu- 
viaNAE; or Observations on the Organic Remains con- 
tained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and 
on other Geological Phenomena, attesting the action of 
an Universal Deluge. By the Rev. Wittiam Buck- 
uaNnp, B. D., F. R. S., F. L.S., Member of the Geol. 
Soc. London, Hon. Memb. Amer. Geol. Soc. &c. &c., 
and Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford. Quarto, pp. 303—27 plates. Lon- 
don, 1823. 
A Frew years ago, the editor of a journal of science, who 
should admit into his pages an analysis of a new work on 
the geological evidences of the deluge, would have run 
some hazard of losing his reputation as a lover of demon- 
stration and strict inductive philosophy. And even at this 
day, the above title page may possibly excite some Jeal- 
ousy and alarm, in here and there, a mathematical mind, 
lest Newton and Bacon are about to be abandoned, and 
they are to be mounted on the Alborak* of Burnet, or 
Whiston, or Hutchinson. But we can assure such persons 
that these fears are entirely groundless ; and, although a 
considerable part of the argument of this book is derived 
from such unpromising topics as bones and caverns, we 
think that the author has succeeded in drawing from them 
both the most convincing conclusions, and the most inter- 
esting and entertaining descriptions. 
The friends of revelation may also be anxious to know 
the bearing this book has upon the Mosaic history ; and 
we can assure them likewise, and we do it with pleasure, 
that we have never met with a work on natural history 
merely, which corroborates that narrative so much as this. 
It is unfortunate for geology, that during the dark ages 
of the science, so many and such ridiculous speculations 
should have been mingled with it. A prejudice has thus 
been excited against the science, which remains to this 
day; and very many men of ability and learning in 
other sciences, who are ignorant of the details of mod- 
ern geology, associate with the very name of the sci- 
* The horse on which Mahomet performed his celebrated night journey 
to heaven. 
