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mixed with the animal dust, and therefore less prolific of 
salt petre—and what the “ black dirt,” but pure animal 
dust ? We regret that he has not stated the relative situa- 
tion of the two kinds. American geologists would do well 
to recollect a remark of De Luc, that “ real and general 
advances will then only be made in the Science of nature 
when the dread of prolixity shall be overcome.” 
In Long’s Expedition (Vol. 1. p. 33) it is stated, that the 
party visited a cave in the banks of the Ohio, not far from 
Shawneetown, called “ Cave Inn,” or ‘ House of Na- 
ture.” ‘In this cave, it is said, great numbers of large 
bones were sometime ago found, but we saw no remains of 
any thing of this kind.” 
From these facts, we infer, that in one or two important 
respects, the caves of North America, and South Africa 
are analogous to those of Europe—certainly they are 
alike we think in having been inhabited at a remote period 
by animals: and it is at least probable, that in America 
and Africa those animals were antediluvian. We are dis- 
posed therefore to extend to those quarters of the globe 
the following important conclusion, confined by Mr. Buck- 
land to Europe. | 
‘¢ Another important consequence arising directly from 
the inhabited caves, and ossiferous fissures, the existence 
of which has been now shown to extend generally over 
Europe, is, that the present sea and land have not changed 
place ; but that the antediluvian surface of at least a large 
portion of the northern hemisphere was the same with the 
present ; since those tracts of dry land in which we find 
the ossiferous caves and fissures must have been dry also, 
when the land animals inhabited or fell into them, in-the 
period immediately preceding ihe inundation by which 
they were extirpated. And hence it follows, that wherever 
such caves and fissures occur, i. e. in the greater part of 
Europe, and in whatever districts of the other Continents 
such bones may be found under similar circumstances, 
there did not take place any such interchange of the sur- 
faces occupied respectively by land and water, as many 
writers of high authority have conceived to have immedi- 
ately succeeded the last great geological revolution, by an 
universal and transient inundation which has affected the 
planet we inhabit.” p. 162. 
