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ces as show them to be of postdiluvian origin. We have 
already noticed the female skeleton discovered at Pavi- 
land: and human bones occur in six other caves in Eng- 
land—all of which, however, are paushe by the author to 
have been deposited since the deluge. Indeed we think 
it quite clear, that the records of geology do not furnish a 
single instance of a fossil] human bone, of antediluvian origin. 
The Gaudaloupe specimen (Cuvier’s Theory of the Earth, 
p: 235,) seemed at first to be a pretty strong case: but 
we. believe geologists all agree in reckoning it a postdiluvi- 
an production. Scheuchzer’s celebrated “homo diluvii 
testis,” has been shown by Cuvier to be a great salamander. 
The case described by Baron Schlotheim, “and subsequent- 
ly by Mr. Weaver, in the Annals of Philosophy for Janaa- 
ry 1823, of human bones discovered in the vailey of Els- 
ter, in Saxony, is not perhaps so clearly referable to an 
epoch posterior to the deluge, although this is the prevailing 
opinion of naturalists. The instance described by Mr. At- 
water, ia the second volume of this Journal, of human 
bones found deep in the earth in Ohio, needs to have the 
question better settled than it now is, whether they really 
occur in diluvium or alluvium, before we can refer them to 
an antediluvian epoch. 
A very remarkable fact is stated by Mr. Burland con- 
cerning the cave at Kuhloch, in Germany. We give it in 
his own words. 
‘Tt is literally true, that in this single cavern, (the size 
and proportions of which are nearly equal to the interior of 
a large church,) there are hundreds of cart loadsof black an- 
imal dust, entirely covering the whole floor, to a depth which 
must average at least six feet, and which, if we multiply 
this depth by the length and breadth of the cavern, will be 
found to exceed five thousand cubic feet. ‘The whole of this 
“mass has been again and again dug over, in search of teeth 
and bones, which it still contains abundantly, though in 
fragments. The state of these is very different from that 
of the bones in any of the other caverns, being of a black, or 
more properly speaking, dark umber colour throughout, and 
many of them readily ernmbling under the finger into a 
soft dark powder, resembling mummy powder, and being 
of the nature of the black earth in which they are imbedded. 
The quantity of animal matter accumulated on this floor, is 
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