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relative position. The appearance was noticed in other 
places; though it is not known that any one has before 
described it. It vanished a little before the tail of the 
Comét ; after having been a few days visible. i 
New-Haven, August 9th. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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Arr. XXIX.—WNotice and Review of the Retiquian Diiv- 
viANAE3 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. Wititam Bucxianp, 
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—37 plates. Lon- 
don, 1823. 
[Concluded from page 168 of this volume. | 
‘THE second cavern visited by Professor Buckland was 
also in the vicinity of Kirkdale ; being discovered a short 
time after the one we have so particularly described. This 
cave agreed in every respect with the one containing 
bones, except that the bones and the inferior stalagmitic 
covering, were wanting. ‘The mud was six feet deep, and 
over its surface, in most parts, was spread a crust of sta- 
lagmite. Several other caverns and vertical fissures oc- 
cur within one mile of the one just mentioned, and agree 
with it in every important respect. An open fissure was 
also, soon after, discovered in the limestone of Duncombe 
Park, destitute of diluvial mud, but containing bones of 
existing animals, which have probably fallen into it from 
time to time, since the deluge. The author thinks that 
similar fissures might have existed in antediluvian days, 
into which, graminivorous animals, from their habits, 
. would be more likely to fall than beasts of prey. An in- 
stance of this occurs in a cave near Wirksworth, in Der- 
