Notice and Review of the Reliquae Diluvianae. 329 
by_a diluvial coat of loam, sand and bowlders, just as it is 
in New and Old England. We had marked several passa- 
ges in the journals of Long and Schoolcraft on this point ; 
but upon the whole, think it unnecessary to extract them. 
The universal diffusion of diluvium then, we think must 
be, to every candid mind, conclusive evidence of an uni- 
versal deluge. And this opinion is confirmed by the oc- 
eurrence in almost every country of the bones of various 
extinct species of animals; such asthe elephant, or mam- 
moth, rhinoceros, bear, deer, tiger, hyena, &c. Itis only 
in diluvium that these are found, and they are obviously 
the same species as those occurring in caves and fissures, 
and appear to have been destroyed by the same catastro- 
phe. The mammoth, or antediluvian elephant, especially, is 
found scattered almost every where, and in some countries 
in immense quantities. ‘‘ There is not,” says Pallas, in all 
Asiatic Russia, fromthe Don to the extremity of the prom- 
ontory of Tchutchis, a stream or river in the banks of which 
they do not find elephants and other animals now strangers 
to that climate. ‘These are washed out by the violent floods 
arising from the thaw of the snows, and have attracted uni- 
versally the attention of the natives, who collect annually 
the elephants’ tusks to sell as ivory.””?« Our readers will not 
forget the remarkable instances of the hairy rhinoceros, 
found in the frozen gravel of Vilhoui, in 1771; and the 
elephant in the ice of ‘Tungusia, in 1800; both the flesh and 
skin in a perfect state of preservation. . 
If then the existence of diluvium clearly points us to an 
universal deluge, we think the animal remains found in that 
diluvium evince as clearly that it must have been the same 
deluge that destroyed the animals in the antediluvian dens 
and fissures, and filled them with mud. In the words of 
Mr. Greenough, ‘‘the universal diffusion of alluvial (dilu- 
vial) sand, gravel, &c. proves that at some time or other an 
inundation has taken place in all countries; aud the pres- 
ence of similar alluvial (diluvial) deposites, both organic and 
inorganic, in neighbouring or distant islands, though con- 
sisting often of substances foreign to the rocks of which the 
islands are respectively composed, makes it highly proba- 
ble, at least, that these depositesare products of the same 
inundation,” 
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